marni
02-02-2013, 08:42 AM
The Good- WOOT!!! all three of my siters and I got into the 100 mile ride on the Little Red Riding Hood ride in Utah on June first. Go Team Star J (after the ranch where 2 of the four of us grew up.) The oldest rider is 69 followed by me who will have just turned 65 and my twin sisters age 59.
Yee hah, ride sistas,ride!
The Bad- yesterday was a perfect riding day, temps in the mid 60's and no wind. There I was riding along enoying the moment. Next thing I knew there was a rock ( golf ball size and headed for my face), the rumble strip and then the road slapped me in the face. Expenisve trip to ER, thanks to two ambulances being called out and one sent away again, and home again all the same day.
The Ugly- broken aero bar, jammed brakes, but the frame seems ok. The first stop after I rescue it from the Firehouse where it is being held for me will be the bike store for rest recuperation and repair for my poor BeBe. I will need a new helmet as curret helmet has the top right outer layer peeled off and cracks throughout. Some road rash on right arm, leg , lots of interesting bruises as well, not to mention the black and blue spots caused by various ER technicians taking repeated blood samples and trying to start IVs.
The Ugliest- my face, or at least the right side of my face. I have a strap shaped bruise stretching from the corner of my mouth to the corner of my jaw, A pretty nasty still oozing scrape running across the cheekbone from the coner of the eye to into the hairline. and another the same condition on my forehead, and then there is the black eye which is currently wine red ( soon to be blue blak I am sure) and swollen nearly shut.
Back to the good- I am up, walking around, talking coherently,and able to take nutrition but will be taking a few days off from the gym and postponing my dentist appoint.
Anyone you can walk away from is a good one. I was lucky but I can also thank the training and conditioning.
marni - too old to be pretty and too tough to kill.
Yee hah, ride sistas,ride!
The Bad- yesterday was a perfect riding day, temps in the mid 60's and no wind. There I was riding along enoying the moment. Next thing I knew there was a rock ( golf ball size and headed for my face), the rumble strip and then the road slapped me in the face. Expenisve trip to ER, thanks to two ambulances being called out and one sent away again, and home again all the same day.
The Ugly- broken aero bar, jammed brakes, but the frame seems ok. The first stop after I rescue it from the Firehouse where it is being held for me will be the bike store for rest recuperation and repair for my poor BeBe. I will need a new helmet as curret helmet has the top right outer layer peeled off and cracks throughout. Some road rash on right arm, leg , lots of interesting bruises as well, not to mention the black and blue spots caused by various ER technicians taking repeated blood samples and trying to start IVs.
The Ugliest- my face, or at least the right side of my face. I have a strap shaped bruise stretching from the corner of my mouth to the corner of my jaw, A pretty nasty still oozing scrape running across the cheekbone from the coner of the eye to into the hairline. and another the same condition on my forehead, and then there is the black eye which is currently wine red ( soon to be blue blak I am sure) and swollen nearly shut.
Back to the good- I am up, walking around, talking coherently,and able to take nutrition but will be taking a few days off from the gym and postponing my dentist appoint.
Anyone you can walk away from is a good one. I was lucky but I can also thank the training and conditioning.
marni - too old to be pretty and too tough to kill.