Stupid Moment

| UltraRob | Monday, May 1st, 2006 at 10:08 pm

Saturday I had one of the those moments where bad things happen from not paying attention or just being stupid. Like in college when a guy I knew that had won national level road races was messing around on his bike on campus and fell over going 5 mph and broke his collar bone. Or when I was in college hiking with a group of friends by moonlight on the Mt. Cutler trail which is an easy, local trail. I slipped and fell. My foot got caught in deep gravel and I couldn’t slide it out from under me. I stretched my foot all the way back as I fell. When my knees hit the ground, I sat back onto my heel of the foot that was stretched back and heard a snap. I had managed to break my tibia.

Saturday’s moment was when I needed to go to the bathroom during my ride. I saw a port-a-pottie at a construction site and decided that was a good place to stop. There was a chain link fence across the entrance but there was a gap between it and the rail fence around the site. Right at the end of the chain link fence was a sandbag and then about 2 inches of pavement before it dropped off a few inches.

I’m a mountain biker and I can put my tires exactly where I want them so I didn’t see any reason I couldn’t ride on the 2 inches of pavement. I had to make a quick maneuver to make it and leaned my bike toward the chain link fence to keep my balance. I managed to nail the metal fence post with my knee cap. I was probably only going 3 mph but it really hurt. I spent a couple minutes hoping around in pain. I was thinking what a stupid way to not be able to start RAAM.

Fortunately I was able to ride another 100 miles with only a little soreness and stiffness. Sunday morning it felt fine when I started riding but was a little sore but not bad after 3 hours into the ride. Now it feels a bit irritated and is bruised but seems like it shouldn’t be a problem.

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