ACK! so i'm NOT a MTB-er

[caligurl]

hmmmm ok.... so i'm not a mountainbiker

perhaps you've read of my mishaps on the road bike... none of which have ever caused me to cry! and i've ALWAYS gotten back on the bike and ridden...

uhm... not so last night... nope... we ended up riding the MTBs cuz of the overnight rainstorm trashing the roads to the point they weren't passable on a road bike... we went over to a friend's house to show him our new baby's.. and he decided to come along and show us some places to ride... and what do i do? i crashed!!!! i went over the handlebars and i IMMEDIATELY started bawling like a baby and saying over and over again between sobs: "i want to go home!" "i want to go home!"

i have fallen over once last week.... no problem.. i even laughed... and last night i even fell over HARD on the rocks... sat there stunned.. but got up... (i wasn't happy though ) continued on... and that's when we came to the short little downhill.... i don't know what happened.. it was steep... too steep for a newbie... i think i hit my breaks.... i went flying.... landed on.. i don't know what? my hands? then the bike had the audacity to come flipping on top of me! i put up my hand (hands?) to fend it off and thought it was going to break my fingers

after hubby got to me and got the bike off me (he was behind me and got smacked in his tail bone either stopping or at some point trying to get to me)... he got the bike off me and i kept trying to grab my bike (cuz i kept saying "i want to go home".. duh!) he kept telling me "nevermind the bike" and wouldn't let me take it finally after he checked me over well enough he let me have my bike... i headed up the hill (walking) and he said "walk it" DUH! ... he said he was going ahead to tell KC we were going home (he's an experience mtb-er... and was way ahead of us!) i was mumbling, crying, sobbing and walking my bike out of the desert... back to the road.. at one point i did even laugh at myself cuz i sounded like a 2-year old.. but i was still crying and sobbing! "i'm NEW" "i can't do this stuff..." etc etc.. i'm glad hubby and kc were too far back to hear my tantrum!

when they finally caught up.. i was still walking and KC said he was sorry for taking me on the course... (too hard for a beginner)

hubby asked if i wanted to ride.. "NO" i did start riding again before i got to the highway... but i was darned close! then KC took us on dirt roads.. MUCH better! i even started having fun again! phew!

my poor legs and arms though just under my left knee a HUGE bruise coming on... same leg.. just above the knee.. smaller bruise... right knee.. smaller bruise.. right arm.. bruising and a bit of gravel scratches.. and my left palm from the first fall over

i don't like getting hurt.....

[bikerchick68]

ugh... I feel for you... and this is exactly why I switched to road biking... the mtn bike trails were so danged technical and I was so new I crashed and bled, and crashed and bled... and my ex-DH was NOT so nice about ti...

sorry you got banged up...

[caligurl]

ya... kc realized too late that it was too hard for me.... i know he felt bad for taking us (me) out there! he did say there are a lot of dirt road areas and he'll show them to us!

i do have fun riding on the dirt roads i've found and on the side of the road in the desert!

i'm just a baby!

even last night when hubby couldn't sit from hitting his tailbone... he said he didn't want to whine cuz "you crashed".. but i was doing a bit of whining too while icing my leg!

[KSH]

Sounds rough lady!

That is why I do not want to mountain bike... I like the roads and staying on my bike... thank you!

I hope you heal up and that you get back on your road bike again... soon!

[Trekhawk]

Caligurl - you are definitely not a baby. That sounds like a horror crash to me.

Take it easy and hope you heal quickly.

Look forward to hearing more of your adventure stories with hopefully a happier and pain free outcome.

[caligurl]

thank you for saying that!

i posted about it at another cycling forum.. and they are being pretty brutal

i've always said i'm a sissy.... (that i REALLY am!) and prissy too!

i'm only going to do what "I" am comfortable doing! and if that's tooling around on dirt roads.. so be it! but i have no doubt as i get more comfortable.. i will take on bigger challenges! i just need to work up to them!

i DON'T think i'll ever do a lot of that wild downhill stuff though! i AM to chicken for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!