At the weekend Pete Macdonald, Eóin Lennon, Lucas Lefèvre and Andy Fallas came across a mountain biker who crashed in Windy Nick on the Pentlands. Robb Hemming joined Carnethy in January but hasn’t run with us yet, other than this introduction.
Well done to the guys for getting him off the hill safely. Here is his update:
Many apologies for the delay in getting back to you, the last few days have been a bit of a blur. First of all I just wanted to massively thank all three of you for your help on Saturday, I’m not sure what state you found me in but undoubtedly would have been in much more trouble if you hadn’t come across me. From what I can remember you got me off the hill in the best way possible and made me feel as comfortable as I could be up until the point of the ambulance turning up, even arranging to have my bike stored at the golf course (which has now been picked up). I also need to thank you for being so good on the phone with my girlfriend, Hannah, who sends on her thanks as well.
Turns out that as well as the broken wrist, which required a plate and a couple of screws, I also have fractures on my T5,6 & 7 vertebrae. Luckily they’re quite far up my back, but before my neck, so everything is functioning absolutely fine. I guess the adrenaline got me off the hill but since then I hadn’t sat upright until Monday morning, I’ve had an external back brace fitted so it looks like that will be in place until the end of August. Not ideal but given the context, a pretty small inconvenience.
I’m now home and signed off work for an “unspecified” amount of time so counting myself very lucky to have come out the side of such an accident relatively well. One of the luckiest parts being you three coming across me and helping so much.
I doubt I’ll be out for my first run with the club very soon but it’s certainly given me a strong affinity with Caernethy and I hope to meet you all in better circumstances soon.
Thanks again
Robb
Mark Hartree