Cycle complete!
I'd hoped it wouldn't reoccur but surprisingly after 7 months without any problem, all of a sudden my knee injury from NZ has come back to haunt me. When it struck first every rotation of the pedal was torturous and as I cycled out of Tashkent my mind flashed back to all those months ago in NZ. More in hope than anything else I thought maybe I could run it off but a whole day and 150kms later it was no better. I was taken in by a kind farmer and his family that night and when he was showing me around the farm, orchards and animals I found that I couldn't help but limp so as to avoid the strain. It wasn't looking good and so in the morning after a further 50kms I decided it was no use cycling any until it was restored to full strength. Previously this had taken a week back in Wellington and so I now envisage the same length of time, amd maybe a bit more, for it to mend itself here in Uzbekistan
After pulling in on the side of the road I wasn't having much luck trying to halt passing traffic that would be capable of carrying a bike. Strange as it would seem a man, surprisingly drunk at 9am and smelling of vodka, was also trying to hitch a lift. After 15 minutes he had managed to stop a truck full of bricks and when the driver beckoned him in I also tried my luck with him, to which he readily took me on board. Abdullah the driver appeared to be a very kind uzbek with a great smile and although he didnt speak English the journey passed of in good spirits. 3 hours later he dropped me on the edge of Samarkand and I pedalled in the last few kilometres to a hotel I had earmarked beforehand. I immediately sought out a physio or doctor and get him to examine the knee just in case it was something more serious. As it happened there was a a clinic opposite the hotel and so I managed to find a doctor to look at it. The examination proved rather difficult as nobody spoke english and so I had to rely to hand gestures to figure out what was going on, which as you can imagine turned out to be rather comical! I was sent for an xray for which nothing showed up and after looking at this the doctor concluded (I think!) that it was knee tendinitis. And so with confirmation semi complete I have resigned myself to one week of rest so that it will recover properly. I envisage the next week will involve a lot of laying up, ice and a whole stack of reading, Sherlock Holmes to be precise!
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5/23/2016 21:38:24
That's really tough - I hope and pray it heals fast.
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