Day 7 – broken man

Bike – 16km
Swim – 30min lake swim
Run – 50mins

We don’t get a whole bunch of injuries on epic camp which is strange given the nature of what we do. Yesterday after doing some big pulls on the front I felt me knee going on me as we approached the winery. I absolutely grovelled home on one leg and hoped a nights sleep might do the trick. It didn’t. After about 1min of riding this morning the pain came back and after 5mins it was pretty debilitating. I carried on for about 30mins hoping it would warm up. With my calf cramping (to accommodate for the knee) and riding single leg it was just not going to happen for me today. I made the tough call to get in the van. On reflection I made the only decision I could make so whilst I am very very annoyed at not being able to complete the camp I don’t feel like I whimped out .
Strangely enough I could still run so when we arrived at Lake Rotoitit we had a beautiful swim and trail run. One of the great things about this camp is we explore parts of our backyard we have never been to. Lake Rotoiti was spectacular and the only reason I can think that it isn’t a throng of people is the sandflies, but even they weren’t too bad today.
When I stood up after lunch I knew my knee was not going to work this afternoon so I missed the tailwind sprint (85km) back to Nelson. It sounded like a blast with Peit saying he his 86km/hr on his aero bars. The group got home about 1hr quicker than they went out.
So all in all not a good day but John E has given the leg a loosen and maybe I can get going again tomorrow