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It’s been a week and two days since I crashed my bike sideways into a minivan and I thought it would be good to give an update. I think I might have cracked or bruised my rib(s) on the left side. When I breath deeply, laugh, cough, or sneeze I have a sharp shooting pain in one very specific spot in in front of the left side of my rib cage. I had kind of noticed it just a little last weekend, but I was taking it so easy and not exercising because I was so beat up that I didn’t really do any deep breathing until the last few days back on the bike again.

Today I rode about 18 miles on PCH on my single speed, which was painful in recovery at the top of the hills (deep breathing). Then right afterwards I ran about 1.5 miles, and that got pretty painful towards the end. Just to explain, I’m training for a short triathlon in September, I had just taken a week off of training after the crash to recover.

So, the chest pain is a bummer. I did hit the guy’s minivan pretty hard, and I took a lot of the impact with my ribs and shoulder so I guess this makes sense. It’s weird, the day of the crash it took a while for things to start to hurt, but I was kind of running on adrenaline for a while, it was later the afternoon of the hit that I started getting achey, and really it was like Day 3 that I was really hurting.

Anyway, from the reading I’m doing online, doctors can’t really do anything about cracked ribs anyway other than give you pain relievers, so at least I’ll save money on a medical bill. It’s not that bad, just don’t say anything funny (”haha OW! Oh god!”).