Sometimes you crash and have a good story to tell; sometimes you crash and have to make one up cause the truth is too stupid to admit!  I just had the latter happen, so here's my story:

I was out riding and I saw some middle-school kids launching it off of a ramp on their BMX bikes.  Cool!  Forgetting I am 47 - that's right "Forty Seven going on Seventeen" - I decided to show those youngn's how it's done!  So I hit the jump at full speed - only too late realizing that my mountain bike has a lot longer wheelbase than those BMX bikes - like after I caught my rear wheel on the lip and got cart-wheeled head first and pile- driven straight into the ground.  Lucky to not have broken my neck - I never even got time to tuck my head or even release the bars - and too embarrased to admit to those kids that I was really hurt, I got up and pedaled slowly home.  Neck has hurt ever since...

While that story is actually true, and embarrassing - it's not the latest "47 going on 17" story.  The latest one involved an ice rink, and a wicked "high side" crash from catching an edge in soft ice.  A bruised tail -bone, cracked noggin (no helmet while just pleasure skating), and another pain in the neck - and suffering doesn't begin to explain it.  Can't walk, can't sleep, sure can't ride  -still able to (sorta) run though, enough to get my training hours in - it's ugly but it counts in the training log!  Haven't found a Healthfx pill that will fix this one!

Not Seventeen anymore...

Rick