I write this on the eve on my first German race, Dhuren. It’s a UCI 1.2 and it goes over some fairly large hills so hopefully, if I have good legs, it will be a day to remember.

The point of the next few lines is to tell how I got on with my knee injury. Luckily, the manager is a physiotherapist and has many wonderful ways of making an injury better. The method which greeted me was basically electrocution. I had a needle the length of my index finger in the quad muscle on the inside of my leg just above my knee cap and another in the muscle called the ITB just below my hip, on my right leg. Now, I’m not too sure what size current was passed through my leg but it was enough to effectively paralyse my quad muscle and make it rhythmically pulsate 2 times every second. It was a strange sensation. The idea is that it breaks down some crystals in my muscles, relaxes my IBT, and therefore untwists my kneecap...and makes my right as rain.