Quote Originally Posted by yellow View Post
I have gone down twice on my commute bike since August. It's an old mtn bike with slicks on it. It doesn't ride like my road bike OR my mtn bike, which I've learned the hard way. For a while there I had to tell myself, out loud, that I couldn't take corners like I was on my road bike. Now that the weather's changed and I'm focused on running (and hopefully skiing very soon), I'm not commuting by bike either. Also giving that a rest. My head is most definitely not into riding at the moment.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, yellow. I hate to think of others crashing too, but it does make me feel less alone. And my more experienced mtb buddies crash too, but they crash riding teeter totters or really technical stuff, I crash because I slip on wet leaves or hit a tree with my handlebars or go too slow around a tight curve. Often they're just embarrassing things like that that make me crazy.

But I'm with you on the taking some time off....it's getting to be the time of year where more often than not it's too chilly for me to be inspired to ride on the weekends. I am definitely a weather wimp! And it's too dark to ride after work now, so I've got a road bike inside on the trainer. Believe it or not, I almost crashed on that on my first trainer ride this past week too! DH had put it on the trainer and must not have cranked it down tight enough, so when I went to ride out of the saddle for the first time, it slipped out of the trainer part-way, and I started going down. Scary! Thankfully, he was on that side of me on his own bike on a trainer, so blocked me from falling down to the ground! But it just hasn't been a very stable week.

We normally hike when it's colder (and yes, sometimes I manage to trip on a rock and fall doing that too, but it's very infrequent!!), but we had such lovely warm weather yesterday that the road beckoned. Too bad I never got there! We won't get too many days like that for awhile, I suspect. I have also been running, going to the gym, and we're going to Key Largo sailing right after Thanksgiving, so that will be a pleasant change of pace. So long as I don't get hit by the boom, I will hopefully come home in one piece and not too bruised/battered.

Thanks again for all the supportive words, everyone!!!

Emily