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Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Herbert] [ In reply to ]
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how the hell do you crash at 60kph and only get a couple of scrapes on your face? Looks like he's the best crasher in triathlon as well.
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Herbert] [ In reply to ]
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Does the gash under his right eye look like it came from his Oakley lens jamming into him??

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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Sean H] [ In reply to ]
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Sean H wrote:
how the hell do you crash at 60kph and only get a couple of scrapes on your face? Looks like he's the best crasher in triathlon as well.

It's amazing how people spin stories. I've crashed at 34mph and I was ALL road rash. My assumption is he was going 60kph and slammed on the brakes before ultimately crashing. So, in reality, he probably crashed going far far slower.
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Sean H] [ In reply to ]
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Sean H wrote:
how the hell do you crash at 60kph and only get a couple of scrapes on your face? Looks like he's the best crasher in triathlon as well.

First of all good to know he is OK. Maybe he ejected off the road and landed in grass on the side of the road and decelerated a lot before he actually started sliding.
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [stevej] [ In reply to ]
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My 6 year old who wears glasses often has gashes around his eyes from his glasses. But we figure better a gash on the brow or cheek versus damage to the eye


stevej wrote:
Does the gash under his right eye look like it came from his Oakley lens jamming into him??
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Sean H] [ In reply to ]
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Best of luck to Jan and his recovery.

I went down almost 4 weeks ago doing about 22 mph. I hit some loose gravel while making a turn off a road that was having some resurfacing work. I didn't have time to slow down at all. I was riding, and a nanosecond later I smashed into the road. End result was road rash from my ankle to my shoulder on the right side of my body. 6 stitches in palm area of my right hand. My hand wound was an impact type wound, looked like I was stabbed with a knife. Deep wound. I couldn't use my hand for a week due to swelling and temporary nerve damage. Right elbow required 12 stitches to patch up as it got skinned to the bone. It's still a fucking mess and hurts to this day. I had a basketball sized bruise (w/road rash) on my right hip. I was just able to run for the first time this week. My right shoulder is still really sore. Sleeping has really sucked.

Thankfully I didn't hit my head and somehow didn't break any bones. Lying on the road seconds after the crash I was afraid to move because all I could think about was what was broken because there was no way I didn't break something. Glad I was wrong. Except for my bike. $1,000 worth of damage to my almost new Canyon Aeroad.

Crashing sucks. I guess I had been lucky all these years since my last bad bike crash happened when I was 15 or 16. So I had a good 32-33 year run.

Favorite Gear: Dimond | Cadex | Desoto Sport | Hoka One One
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [The GMAN] [ In reply to ]
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Ouch, sorry to hear that.
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Herbert] [ In reply to ]
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Oh absolutely. I’d be curious to see what his Oakley’s look like. This is just a reminder to us to be careful out there and make sure you are wearing proper eye protection.

Hope he heals up quickly.

Doesn’t he have still have to validate for kona?

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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [stevej] [ In reply to ]
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He has to qualify regularly I’m pretty sure, which he will do with any decent showing at Frankfurt (that’s the one he’s doing right?). But he’s pretty far down the kpr right now without many points from kona and no other IM.
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Sean H] [ In reply to ]
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I believe the last 5 years of kona winners get an automatic slot. They only have to validate.

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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [stevej] [ In reply to ]
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Ah didn’t know that
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [stevej] [ In reply to ]
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stevej wrote:
I believe the last 5 years of kona winners get an automatic slot. They only have to validate.

Yes, this is correct. He is low on the KPR in 74th place and just has to complete an IM to get his auto invite back to Kona.
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [The GMAN] [ In reply to ]
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The GMAN wrote:
Best of luck to Jan and his recovery.

I went down almost 4 weeks ago doing about 22 mph. I hit some loose gravel while making a turn off a road that was having some resurfacing work. I didn't have time to slow down at all. I was riding, and a nanosecond later I smashed into the road. End result was road rash from my ankle to my shoulder on the right side of my body. 6 stitches in palm area of my right hand. My hand wound was an impact type wound, looked like I was stabbed with a knife. Deep wound. I couldn't use my hand for a week due to swelling and temporary nerve damage. Right elbow required 12 stitches to patch up as it got skinned to the bone. It's still a fucking mess and hurts to this day. I had a basketball sized bruise (w/road rash) on my right hip. I was just able to run for the first time this week. My right shoulder is still really sore. Sleeping has really sucked.

Thankfully I didn't hit my head and somehow didn't break any bones. Lying on the road seconds after the crash I was afraid to move because all I could think about was what was broken because there was no way I didn't break something. Glad I was wrong. Except for my bike. $1,000 worth of damage to my almost new Canyon Aeroad.

Crashing sucks. I guess I had been lucky all these years since my last bad bike crash happened when I was 15 or 16. So I had a good 32-33 year run.

That sucks. Sorry. Did these injuries end your Scandinavian trip and race?
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Herbert] [ In reply to ]
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But is the bike okay?
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [mwanner13] [ In reply to ]
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It appears that way :-)
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [SummitAK] [ In reply to ]
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SummitAK wrote:
The GMAN wrote:
Best of luck to Jan and his recovery.

I went down almost 4 weeks ago doing about 22 mph. I hit some loose gravel while making a turn off a road that was having some resurfacing work. I didn't have time to slow down at all. I was riding, and a nanosecond later I smashed into the road. End result was road rash from my ankle to my shoulder on the right side of my body. 6 stitches in palm area of my right hand. My hand wound was an impact type wound, looked like I was stabbed with a knife. Deep wound. I couldn't use my hand for a week due to swelling and temporary nerve damage. Right elbow required 12 stitches to patch up as it got skinned to the bone. It's still a fucking mess and hurts to this day. I had a basketball sized bruise (w/road rash) on my right hip. I was just able to run for the first time this week. My right shoulder is still really sore. Sleeping has really sucked.

Thankfully I didn't hit my head and somehow didn't break any bones. Lying on the road seconds after the crash I was afraid to move because all I could think about was what was broken because there was no way I didn't break something. Glad I was wrong. Except for my bike. $1,000 worth of damage to my almost new Canyon Aeroad.

Crashing sucks. I guess I had been lucky all these years since my last bad bike crash happened when I was 15 or 16. So I had a good 32-33 year run.


That sucks. Sorry. Did these injuries end your Scandinavian trip and race?

No, the $8,000 in plane tickets put an end to it before it started.

Favorite Gear: Dimond | Cadex | Desoto Sport | Hoka One One
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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devashish_paul wrote:
stevej wrote:
I believe the last 5 years of kona winners get an automatic slot. They only have to validate.


Yes, this is correct. He is low on the KPR in 74th place and just has to complete an IM to get his auto invite back to Kona.

Correct. He wants to race (and validate) in Frankfurt. That is two weeks out, so I assume that he will be ok to race. However, he is supposed to race and not just walk (sure, definitions are very vague, but anway). Otherwise, WTC could refuse to accept validation...
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [motorcity] [ In reply to ]
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He will be dangerous in Kona again
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Herbert] [ In reply to ]
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Herbert wrote:
He will be dangerous in Kona again

If his wounds will heal within two weeks, or at least not limit him, he will also rock the show in Frankfurt ... which will be interesting to watch if you take a look at the start list ;-)
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [motorcity] [ In reply to ]
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Thougt it may look like not much damage was done, never underestimate the damage of the actuel impact itself. Even without a lot of road rash, stitches, bruises or broken bones, this surely may impact his performance in 2 weeks out.
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [Kreiger] [ In reply to ]
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Kreiger wrote:
Thougt it may look like not much damage was done, never underestimate the damage of the actuel impact itself. Even without a lot of road rash, stitches, bruises or broken bones, this surely may impact his performance in 2 weeks out.

Well, that's why I wrote "if it will not limit him". But if I got it right, he had 10 or so stitches, so that has quite an impact that surely might become a limiting factor...
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Re: Jan Frodeno Bike Crash - Ouch [motorcity] [ In reply to ]
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Yeah sure. But visible wounds like stitches might heal quite fast while the invisible impact on core could take more time to be no limitating.

I crashed once in an olympic 10 days behore competing in a half. Had road rash and even stitches on the back of my head. Road rash and burns hurt like hell and I couldn't move my shoulder for a week but once that was over, the only thing left seemed a patch on my shoulder that was not even limiting me (and it was a salt water swim). However in the last 3km of the run I found out the impact on my core was not yet "healed".
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Will you challenge him?
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