Swedish Dakar rally rider Annie Seel reports from the bivouac in Antofagasta, Chile:
"I´ve had a really difficult day today, the right hand with my injured thumb is not working at all.
Yesterday evening I got some electro-treatment, anti-inflamatory substances and pain reliefers, but it´s not really working. When driving, the thumb is not reacting when it should, it´s kind of numb when trying to break or steer. Trying to keep it on top of the handle bar, but in the terrain we are riding it´s hard.
The entire track today was in fesh-fesh, like riding in a bag of flour, so dusty, so hard to distinguish just about anything, and it seems as if some of the dust went into the engine, repeatedly the engine came to a stop, and I had to cleanse the filter and try to restart it each time. Since the electrical starter wouldn´t work it I had to kickstart it at the same time starting with the electrical engine, and for those who knows me, or have seen me, I am not that tall, and everytime the engine stopped I needed to find a rock, stone or else to stand on so that I could reach over to kick. Loosing a lot of time today.
Now I will head over to my team and see what they say, if we need to change the engine or if it´s alright"
Yesterday evening I got some electro-treatment, anti-inflamatory substances and pain reliefers, but it´s not really working. When driving, the thumb is not reacting when it should, it´s kind of numb when trying to break or steer. Trying to keep it on top of the handle bar, but in the terrain we are riding it´s hard.
The entire track today was in fesh-fesh, like riding in a bag of flour, so dusty, so hard to distinguish just about anything, and it seems as if some of the dust went into the engine, repeatedly the engine came to a stop, and I had to cleanse the filter and try to restart it each time. Since the electrical starter wouldn´t work it I had to kickstart it at the same time starting with the electrical engine, and for those who knows me, or have seen me, I am not that tall, and everytime the engine stopped I needed to find a rock, stone or else to stand on so that I could reach over to kick. Loosing a lot of time today.
Now I will head over to my team and see what they say, if we need to change the engine or if it´s alright"
Stage 4 - Dakar Annie " A lot of pain"
Stage 3 - Dakar Annie "Out of gas"
Stage 2 - Dakar Annie "Perfect match"
Stage 1 - Dakar Annie "A great day on the special"
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