Tao Geoghegan Hart says his job these days depends on an ability to be patient, as he continues a long recovery from a complex fracture to his left femur suffered in a crash on stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia. His day-to-day activities are “puttering around” as he works on just getting his range of motion back in his leg.
Physiotherapy is his focus, and he is eager to just get on a bike, any bike, rather than a wheelchair to go outside. He spoke on Wednesday on a webcast session with travel company inGAMBA about the positive, but slow, rehabilitation process from his current residence in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He keeps an eye on the Tour de France, calling it “a unique beast” and looked well ahead to where he might want to ride a bike next year.
“It’s not that I’ve been able to do a great deal in the last weeks, to be honest, with the mobility around the leg and stuff, I have to be careful of not overdoing it. I’ve got my Brompton folded up in the boot of my car, which I’m itching to get out to kind of explore the city a little bit more in the coming weeks. And for now, just doing what I can and enjoying puttering around really and yeah, trying to recover from the rehab because it’s pretty arduous,” Geoghegan Hart said during the inGAMBA question-and-answer session.
“During my rehab here in the Netherlands, one of the important things to me was to be in a city because I think there’s just such a great diversity of people and culture and galleries and opportunities to just spend one time. So that was a unique opportunity to fill this period where possible with doing some other things, outside of the three to four hours a day of rehab and physio.”
The Briton had surgery the evening of the crash in May in Genova. Eight weeks on, he’s in the gym now with some weight resistance but is not able to go outside for recovery sessions, which he said is the most difficult part of the process so far.
“Yeah, it is all inside, which is hard for me because I love being outside. And it’s definitely one of the things that drew me to cycling, being outside all day,” Geoghegan Hart explained. “It’s mostly with the physio, so a lot of passive stuff, still getting range motion, and the full movement patterns and stuff.
“Started in the gym properly, I would say, last week. I was pretty sore in the days after that, and much more sore than you’ll ever get from riding the bike,” he said with a chuckle. “It’s all progressing well. It’s just about…
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