Today we decided to ride and it was a beautiful ride, even with my incident.

Husband was trying out his new Crux (mine will be ready around June 10th for pick-up). He loves it.

We had 25km done in heavy winds, good gustings! A bit too hot to my taste but if you want to ride, you have to do it when we have no rain as too much of it lately...and to come.

And since I'm good at injuring myself, it had to happen again. Deuh!

So for the 2nd time in 2 years, I managed to cut the inside of my calf with my cog. I can see at least 5 of the teeth that digged into my leg and one of them is pretty deep (I guess the first one that caught in) and you can see all the gooey stuff inside. I guess I will truly be tatooed for life on that leg. haha

It is a stupid accident too. We had stopped to get an iced coffee and the partking where we were is small and the entrance is a small hill. We're ready to go and I'm standing (foot on the ground) and analyzing what my next move would be since 2 cars were "unstable" - like not knowing what they would d, I had to see if others were coming and going at the bottom of that tiny hill. So while doing this, I'm not holding on the breaks and my bike decides to move forward a bit (due to hill) and I'm not quick enough to realize what is going on. So my right leg is in front of my derailleur and this is when the cog teeth got into the leg. And that cog is super sharp. Very.

In my mind, I'll look and just move on. Not the end of the world. It does not hurt anyway. But I look down and I see the blood dripping heavily in my short sock, into my shoe too. ARggg. No choice but to get back to the side of restaurant and clean and bandage this. This is when I'm sooooo happy to have a good 1st aid kit with me.

Hubby went inside to get some napkins and we flushed the wounds (5 holes) with water and then I had antiseptic tissus. I put plasters all over and was good to go.

Once home I flushed with running water, I used peroxyde, then rinsed, apply polysporin and a Steri Strip to that "bad" cut and now all is bandaged. I will look at it tomorrow morning and watch closely for infection (I did not get a titanos shot in ages).

But lesson learned...even though my 1st aid kit is good and you can carry so much on a road bike, I added a few more things (like Steri Strips) and SelfGrip Self-Adhering First Aid Tape. This would have been handy instead of using so many plasters.

So lesson learned...if you are stopped and standing over your bike...keep at least one of the 2 break handles "on".