I hit the ground HARD.
It was a dump off the right side in the street. Luckily a no traffic having street. My arm hit and left some road rash on my elbow, my thigh hit (weird huh?) and my keys were between my thigh and the pavement, so that cut my thigh open pretty good. Luckily my arm was outstretched, because my head hit like a ton of bricks down on my upper arm, I felt and HEARD every joint in my neck crack as my head slammed onto my upper arm. I'm very lucky my arm was there, or my face would be f-ed up bad right now, probably bloody and with a few less teeth for sure. Somehow I managed to smash my left pinky and hit my thumb pretty good. I don't know how, they were on the other side of the fall. My pinky is still a bit numb. Luckily my best bike only got a little scuff on the left front of the bars and on the brake lever.
So, I'm two beers into recovery and feeling better already. Still feeling beat, but very lucky at the same time. Lucky that there was no traffic in the street, and even luckier that my face is still intact thanks to my arm that took the major blow. I know tomorrow's gonna suck, cause that's when I'll start to feel the result of what I heard happen to my neck.
Anyway, just wanted to share with someone. I know beer probably thins the blood and is not so good for clotting, but I haven't lost much blood and the beer helps numb the rest.
This kind of thing seems to happen to me about once a year. Last year it was a trip over the handle bars, resulting in some shaved down palms. Ouch.
Ride to live, live to ride.
