TT3D: Closer to the Edge Page #13

a lot worse day than I have.

I'm still in one piece. I'm gonna

head for the ferry and get home

and get my thoughts together

and see what's going to be available

for next year, or,

if nothing floats me boat,

I might hang me leathers up.

You never know.

Me and the kids, together;

have had our down times

and I haven't tried to

hide anything from them.

You know, we've done

our crying together

And then, "OK, what are we

gonna do now?"

Get over it, move on.

I think the point of life

is to enjoy it.

Have as good a time as we can while

we're here and what we've got given.

You can't change what you get given

but you can decide

whether or not to enjoy it.

I've been to look at

where the crash was,

there's still bits of green paint from

either the bike or me leathers

still on the cat's eye

on the side of the road.

I can actually see

where it's all gone wrong.

I've disappeared over the side.

And the way I look at it that's where

the injuries started to happen

and it sort of..

It does get to you a little bit.

The main one was me back.

I broke that in five places

and I've got a big scar on my back

as a result of getting tumbled clown

the hill and hitting a few things,

I broke my arm in four places.

Some slight nerve damage to it

but that's coming back nicely.

My knee was dislocated, a few scrapes,

I had a fractured pelvis

and a fractured shoulder blade

and a bruised lung, as well.

Um, there was a bit

to take in really, you know.

To get my head around it

was a big challenge, you know, mentally.

There's no chance I'm giving up.

I'm 24 year old and I perfectly accept

I've been really really lucky

but me love for bike racing

is still there

and I've got goals I want to achieve.

So the first opportunity I ever get

I 'll be straight on it.

That's my plan, you know.

Come up to the Verandah at the

next TT or whenever I get back,

and just attack it like normal.

Yeah, it was a big one but

we'll just get on with life.

The world ain't gonna stop for me.

Tremendous start,

round the outside.

We think Ian Hutchinson,

the five times in a week

winner of the T may be the lad who's down there.

Unfortunately, yeah, I got into

the second to last race of the year

on a short circuit, not a road race,

and ended up with this injury.

I mean, it's a shame how it happened.

To be ridden off by somebody else.

You know, when it happened and they were

talking about amputating my leg,

there was only one reason

I didnt want to amputate

and that's so I can race

a motorbike, you know.

Apart from that,

nothing else really matters, so,

you know, my argument

was to get my foot back on.

And not only get it on,

I said, "I don't want a foot

just on the end of my leg.

"I want a foot that's 1 00% working

so I can get on with my job."

Couldn't have been a better time

for it to happen, obviously,

seven months until

the start of the season, so...

I've just got to get on with it

and get back to fitness

for the start of next year.

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