Hi Sandy,

Glad that you are ok, and that you had a helmet. Time to get a new lid and maybe have the bike checked.

Let's see, watch that lip of the road or path. Right, if you go off onto the gravel road and sometimes even hybrid tires can "catch" on the lip getting back on. This is similar to crossing rail road tracks, It happens to even experienced riders.

you can:
swerve further out to the right (thinking US, left for Brits) and come back at the pavement as close to perpendicular as you can....but that puts you at odds to other riders on the path or....

look for a place that is kinda level and head for that but feather the pedaling. Click here for a good article about how to handle your bike in sand and gravel, it's no "day at the beach" but fun once you get it:

http://www.velogirls.com/resources/p...tions/sand.htm

or....

Get off bike, put it back on the path, get going