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Injury update

My knee is still in bad shape and it's now been 17 days since the first time I felt pain. I am doing strength and stretching but I can't see any progress. I have rested for several days with zero effect. Going to a physio therapist in two days. I met one last week who gave me excercises to do at home. I think I will stay off the bike totally for the whole week :(. Fitness is plummeting bringing confidence and happiness to the bottom. 

2020

This weekend will host the first race of the season on the Guatemalan calendar. I won't be at the start line for the "Presentacion por el equipos" which is translated into Team Presentation. It's a criterium of 45 minutes or so in the central parts of Guatemala City with a team presentation after the race. Last year I finished in the top group (20-30 left of over 120 starters) which was very unexpected but fun. I will miss out on the first races, including Tour la Paz which has 10 foreign teams coming this year, and the first qualification race for the Olympics in Tokyo as well as a "Clasica" (national elite stage race). I might be back in Guatemala for the second Olympic qualification and the second Clasica but if they are going to be raced on high altitude it will be very, very, very hard since I won't be acclimatised. I have no main goals with the season really because I don’t know when I will be in Guatemala or in Sweden. I have scrat