Needed to whine a little... I saw a few injury threads and thought that misery loves company. Had a crash about 2 weeks ago and fractured my wrist! DH and I were cruising on our favorite trail. There was a fair amount of bike traffic as well as runners, dog walkers and skaters out. We were riding at about 18 mph and weaving in and out ... yelling "on your left"... about 11 miles in, an inline skater (wearing headset, of course), pulled over the line right in front of us. DH managed to brake enough to get past him without hitting him, but I couldn't quite slow down enough and tapped the back tire of DH's bike. Of course, the rest is history. Went down hard and fast on concrete.

The entire right side of my body was immediately either road rash or giant contusions. But my right hand/wrist was in excruciating pain - I said to DH "uh oh, I think I broke something". Still, we were about 5 miles out to the car, so I got on the bike and rode out -- whining and crying the whole way.

The next day they told me it was fractured and in a place where they had to put pins in to stabilize and a plaster old-timey cast. Tomorrow, I get the cast off and the pins out and they will put on a light weight fiberglass cast, which I will wear for approx. 4 more weeks.

I spent the whole winter on my trainer so that I would be fit for spring, and here I sit. I've tried to get on the trainer, but the arm/hand is too sore... just can't do it yet. I am so bummed out