Thumbs up | MTBing injury | Race Photography

Heeeyho Readers! Sports injuries sucks!

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Thumbs up for me!

First, because I'm fine. Second, because my thumb is actually up. Sports injuries sucks! I've been mountain biking for years and am at peace with injuries. They happen sooner or later. It's just that crashing while training, two days before a race, frustrates anyone.

Last Friday a friend and I went about to train for Sunday's XCO (olympic cross country) race. I should've known better that dew over grass on a 30-kilometer-and-hour turn deserves attention. Not for less, after a few passes and with more and more confidence, my wheels washed out sending me sliding on my side. Common crash had I not stick my thumb out.

I'm fine. Sprained thumb, ice, massage and a lot of patience to wait it heal. Unfortunately, dumb thumb didn't heal until the race. Thumbs up. {Pa-dum-tss}.

I can still photograph

With the event ruined for me, the only thing left to do is to photograph. I took my 2013 Nikon D7100 along with a 1980's all manual 50mm lens (the only decent lens I have other than a 18-105mm). Manual focusing on a cycling event is challenging, though I think the results are decent.

^{50mm | f8 | aperture priority}

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It got me a few minutes to remember how to use the DSLR since it's been a long time that I don't photo-shoot. It's incredible how we lose the hand without practicing.

The best thing of olympic cross country is that the race happens in a closed circuit, different than marathon that's performed on vicinal roads. That gives the public a chance to enjoy the races.

A guy asked how could I photography without any zoom lens. I said: "get closer". Using a single lens gives us a chance of moving more an that's the cool thing about photographing.

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Gotta admit I was afraid of opening the hell out of the aperture to blur the background. With such a thin focal range I'm sure the photos would end up more out of focus since my lens doesn't have auto-focus.

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Although it's nice to photography a cycling event, I still prefer to race {sigh}. Kinda anxious waiting for the thumb to heal, but... there's nothing else I can do.

I hope you've enjoyed the photos of our little event as much as I enjoyed taking them.

Peace.

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