Congratulations on finishing and on your spectacular half time entertainment.
If you can find any aconite salve or lotion at a natural food store, that will pretty much eliminate the bruising and ease the pain.
Gravel, wet dry or in any shape is nasty stuff and not to be trusted.
too bad about your bottle cage, but at least you and the bike are in operating condition.
I'll never forget the telephone call from my son when we were living overseas, his one and only question was if his tetanus shot was current. When I asked why he sort of hemmed and hawed and then admitted that he had hit some gravel on his mountain bike, killed the bike, broken his wrist and had bleeding and requiring stitches road rash from his arm pit to his ankle. He was still picking bits and pieces of sand and gravel out of his cuts a month later. He gave up road biking and took up graf magraw( phonetic spelling and probably not anything near the correct spelling) or the special fighting style that the Isreali special forces use.
me? I'm just his mother so what do I know?
marni
