Champion cyclist Christina Mackenzie is finally back in the saddle more than four months after a horror collision with a car on a country road – and is eyeing up her first competition after believing she’d never ride again.The popular cyclist was left with a devastating pelvis injury that has kept her off the region’s roads since she was hit by a car whilst out on a training ride.Christina had been cycling along the B822, at the Kippen roundabout, shortly after 5pm on September 27 last year when a black car which was towing a trailer hit her, leaving her lying by the roadside in agony.She was later diagnosed with multiple agonising fractures to her pelvis and underwent a gruelling physiotherapy schedule in her battle to get back to full fitness.She was able to get on her bike for light training sessions from the comfort of her own home but this week she was finally able to cycle on public roads for the first time since the harrowing ordeal.Christina, from Cambusbarron, has this week revealed how “daunting” it was to finally get back on her bike for the first time since the shocking collision.The time trial specialist, originally from Stornoway, was able to go on a weekend ride to properly test her recovery from the gruesome injury.Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.She made her way through the city’s roads – including cycling past the location of the horror crash – whilst on a two-and-a-half hour 40-mile long ride.Speaking to the Observer this week, Christina said: “It was really daunting initially.“It was a massive thing for me to get back on the road on the bike.
At one point I thought I would never ride ever again because I was in so much pain.“I did have reservations and I even cycled the
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