15 mins into ride, stop light, one foot clipped out. Fuggin’ around talking over shoulder to The Mc. Lost balance, reached for metal post next to me. Top of post came with me, fell down went boom.
Total freaking rookie move, so sweet. Slow mo, right in front of a car. I can imagine the convo inside “did you just see that chick tip over?”
Injuries: calf punctures, dislocated/sprained/broken pinkie, skinned knee, thigh abrasion. Finger is much worse than pictures taken earlier convey. Now green and grey and purple and very swollen and crooked.
I’ll call the orthopedist, and you can call me Grace.
While you’re at it, feel free to share your genius moments to help me laugh through the pain and feel less like an idiot.
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23 May 07
9:51 am
Were you wearing a helmet???
23 May 07
10:11 am
Dur!
hee hee
Yes, big sees. Course at this point I’m not sure my noggin’ is worthy of protecting…ha!
23 May 07
10:56 am
Ouch!! That looks like it hurt a bit. I fell out of bed once, all by myself, no good stories attached, but managed to hit the side table made of marble. The bruise I gave myself took up my entire thigh and I couldn’t walk for a week. Feel better!
23 May 07
12:34 pm
I’ve shared a few with you already and although it probably would have won you $10K on America’s Funniest Home Videos, I think you’ve got a way to go to catch up with me on foolish and hilarious injuries. Get well.
23 May 07
12:42 pm
Sadly I have a few of those… one time, when I was a freshman at San Diego State, I suited up in my biking ‘costume’ and pulled out of the dorm and was rolling up to a red light, reached for a parked car to balance on, missed it and fell over in the middle of the street. Remember, this was back in the day of toe clips and hair net helmets. As I am laying on my back trying to undo the straps that keep my feet locked to the pedals, when the 2 hottest chicks in the dorm pull up next to me in a convertible red Corvet.
The really hot one sits up in the car and says “are you ok?” smiling and clearly doesn’t care about my well being, just having a jab. I swear her friend was coughing “looser” the whole time.
I say, “yes, yes I am” and do my best to hide… ego shattered.
23 May 07
4:15 pm
1st year of learning to ride trails on the mtbike, I tried tackling a killer log that ran across a gorge.
I made the approach just fine. I was riding the frigging thing. And panicked. And just fell over. In total slow motion. I bounced of 8-10 subsequent logs (which were stacked under and to the side of the original log - cuz remember there’s a huge ass gorge underneath of it), ass over teacups and landed on my back. I looked up just in time to see my brand new bike hurdling in the air and landing on top of me.
Yeah. Good times.
At least the only other witnesses were my husband and maybe a squirrel or two.
Heal up soon!
23 May 07
7:39 pm
I’m 6 or 7 years old. I live at the top of a very steep hill, the ocean is at the bottom. A friend lends me her bike, tells me the brakes are “kinda funny” and we decide to ride down the very steep hill. Seems “kinda funny” means “never going to work again”. I realized quickly that I was gaining speed and the brakes were not slowing me down. I kept looking at the fast approaching wooden pier and rickety ramp down to the water below and panic. A neighbors soft grassy yard is coming up on the right. I decide to stop my downward descent by crashing into the yard. I was going too fast hit the one tree in the yard, flew over the handlebars and hit the tree with my face. Knocked out my two front teeth.
23 May 07
10:18 pm
As I’m picking myself up off the ground after one of my numerous criterium related crashes the pack passes by and one of my enemies, of which there were several, blurts out “Hey genius, couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy”. Later, the ER doc pointed to the open hand wound and says to the Mrs. “See there, that’s bone and that’s tendon”. The right thumb had to be pinned back together (still later one of the pins got bent 90 degree when the cat jumped out of my hands).
24 May 07
11:43 am
Not a story, but a video…of me…almost busting ass at Rocky Hill in Bastrop
http://www.pedalmasher.net/movies/crash/barjump.MPG
25 May 07
12:18 am
Pffft, I ate a Camry yesterday, and I’m ready to party. I’m so spry!
Ow.
03 Jun 07
10:39 pm
I just wrecked again on my bike last Thurs. eve. Now typing with 1 hand b/c the other one is broken. Heal quick!
04 Jun 07
1:08 pm
Yikes! I hope we don’t contaminate anyone else!