Trixi Worrack has plenty of victories on her palmares, including the Primavera Rosa, the Tours of California and Qatar, and two world team time trial titles, but she describes her victory in the individual time trial at this year’s German national championships as the best moment of her 16-year career to date.
That’s because it came in the “most difficult” season she's had and on the back of the “worst injury” she’s ever sustained – the 35-year-old underwent emergency surgery in March to remove a kidney that had been ruptured in three places due to a crash at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda.
“At first in hospital I didn’t know if I could even continue as a pro cyclist,” Worrack tells Cyclingnews at the Canyon-SRAM team training camp on Mallorca.
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"You have no idea - I never had experience with the kidney stuff - so I was in hospital for a week and didn't even know I could even continue with pro cycling, because you don't know if the second kidney is working and taking over from the first one. That was the hardest bit about it."
The injury was all the more wounding given the way Worrack had started the season, winning the Tour of Qatar and finishing on the podium in the Ronde van Drenthe. The operation was a success, though, and she managed to get back on the bike by mid-May.
“I was riding again but there were complications with the stomach because they had to cut all my muscles. Normally you cut into the kidney from the back, but they had to take it out from the front. I couldn’t move my left side," she explains.
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