We are for the Fat Viking fat bike race next Saturday but we are also doing the winter biking training camp. Conditions are currently around 20-25C above what they expect at this time of year and temps are swinging around 0C so everything is basically ice
Today's ride was a 40km loop using part of the race route up onto the first plateau, wander around a bit then back to base. The wind was forecast as 40kmh+ and some of the gusts were a bit violent. Being in bottom gear of 26-42 on the flat isn't normal. The last part of the route used the ski piste and here's where things went wrong. About 1/3 of the way down the piste steepened and became almost like sheet ice. Whether it was a gust of wind or me losing control I don't know but in as split second I crashed to the deck and landed on my shoulder. Because of the slope I didn't stop for at least fifty metres and when I did I couldn't even kick a step into the snow it was that hard.
I walked the rest of the way back to the resort centre where the course is based. After some beer as first line of medication we decided to get a taxi to the medical centre which should have shut but there was a duty doctor there on call. Four x-rays later, two of which could be hung in The Tate Modern, the diagnosis was a broken clavicle
Not sure what the correct medical term is (Shaf?) but the two parts of the bone overlap by a cm or two. not enough for the Norwegian health system to consider for operating but don't know about the UK's regimen.
Don't think I'll be doing the Fat Viking
the coldest given in the forecast is -6C. Anyway it's not the UK so wouldn't count 
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(figure of eight mentioned here.. just for ref).
the train will be the hardest bit as you need to be quick on and off but the conductors are pretty chilled so likely to give us time. In Oslo it’s just a case of pestering 
I suspect that I'll just be told to keep wearing the sling and let things sort themselves out. I rang my local surgery and they said to ring when I got back.
