MY HAND is still a little swollen and sore at the moment but it should be alright and I will be back racing for Swindon on Monday night.

I just fell awkwardly in heat one of our fixture at home to King’s Lynn last Thursday. I got sandwiched between Lewis Rose and Chris Holder and had my front wheel taken out from under me. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, it was just a racing incident.

It was just one of those things but with the way I fell, I came down on my hand pretty hard. Luckily nothing broke, there is just a small fracture in my pinkie finger, nothing too major.

I took my glove off during the meeting after I had done another ride and looked at it and thought ‘Oh God’ and put my glove back on pretty quickly and thought I won’t look at it again until after the meeting.

Because of the injury, I missed Swindon’s fixtures at Belle Vue last Friday and Wolverhampton on Monday, and also fixtures for my Championship club, Peterborough, on Saturday and Sunday.

It’s not ideal to have to miss four meetings because of an injury but that’s just part of the sport and, in truth, I probably shouldn’t even have carried on riding on Thursday either.

I probably should have pulled out straight after the fall because I just couldn’t hold onto the bike but I didn’t want to let the team down.

I have done as much resting as I can over the last week but now it’s time to go back to work. I can’t sit around all the time because there are two bikes to sort out, so I am back in the workshop getting ready for when I get back going again on Friday, when I go to Edinburgh with Peterborough.

Peterborough have also got Glasgow away on Saturday before I race at Swindon against Somerset on Monday and then we go to King’s Lynn on Wednesday.

I won’t be easing myself back into it, it’s going to be a busy week with four meetings all over the country.

There’s not really any nerves when you get back on the bike for the first time after an injury, you just get straight back into it.

It just becomes part of the sport and it doesn’t really affect me, I know every race I go out in, it can happen.

It doesn’t faze me and I won’t be worried about riding when I come back, I’ll just get straight back on the bike and get on with it. It won’t even be in my mind.