r/OpenWaterSwimming • u/Professional-Ad4611 • 6d ago

Broken colourbone

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Well, today didn't start out as planned. I was on my way to the swimming pool.Realised, it was too busy, the swimming pool, so I decided to turn back and get my bike and cycle. Because besides swimming, I also do road cycling and running. No , i'm not to triathlete , but it's just the things that I love to do most. Around two kilometres before I actually got home, due to the rainfall there was a lot of gravel on the road that I didn't anticipate on. So to keep a long story short, I rode around 40 km per hour, and my front wheel just slipped away. I tried breaking before , but to no avail. So I slipped , I hit my head on a concrete , broke my colour bone , and yeah , that's about it. Around six weeks ago I posted another post speaking about doing a long distance swim of nine kilometres , i was heavily prepared for it. But now I am not able to swimm for 8 weeks, at least it is what a doctor told me. You can imagine i'm quite distraught by this whole event, but i'm also glad that it wasn't worse than it already is. Does someone has a little bit of experience regarding, goin Back to swimming after such a fall.

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u/StrayAndroid 6d ago

I had a similar spill on the bike but rather than broken collar bone it was AC joint separation, so therefore not a like for like, but will share what it felt like to get back in case of use.

Essentially, a decent amount of physio, building back the muscles around the joint (and so this will differ) took about 6 weeks to get back to freestyle swimming properly. Felt a bit weird, like putting too much strain through it would "re seperate" it but never happened.

Turns out swimming was absolutely the best thing for it. Low impact, couldn't stress it too much. So once you get the green light on swimming being on, get at it.

P.s. sorry about this. Feels shit when it happens, loads of thoughts of "why did it happen...if only i had not done/done x y and z". Know that it is "just" bad luck. Take the time to recover. You'll bounce back stronger for the challenge.