First major crash of the season

[han-grrl]

I was asked an interesting question by the husbands of one of the women participants in our mtb clinic for women. His wife had fallen and had become nervous after that. That's ok, perfectly normal. So we were comparing "war wounds" when he asked me, "how do you just get back on?" Well, i had to think. And my answer was this: its a choice. I can either let my fall scare me, or i can learn from it, and let it make me stronger. Its a matter of taking a deep breath, and going for it. and no, its not easy.

i just thought it was kind of neat that he asked.

and i say, if you are going to crash, make sure its spectacular!

once i fell in the single track, a branch caught my wheel and literally, in milliseconds i was on the ground. it was funny because it was a "...what the??" kind of fall, because no one had seen the branch.

[DirtDiva]

Nothing like a good crash story. Glad to hear you came out of it okay, even if your poor front wheel didn't.

My last crash was completely stupid and self inflicted. I was bunnyhopping a rather small rock and was thick enough to be looking at the damn rock instead of where I was going. Landed quite skew-whiff and discovered that having a visor on one's helmet is a great way of preserving the skin on one's face (my elbow wasn't quite as lucky). Actually, pretty much all my offs this year have involved looking exactly where I don't want to end up and, well, ending up there. I smell a bad habit...