Oh my god, Adrian, an endo...geez. Glad you're OK. Get out the ice and rest! Oweiiii!

How's the helmet and bike? Did you check your helmet for structural or hairline fractures? My mechanic told me to always check the helmet after a fall and to buy a new one ASAP if any structure problems result from a fall. Anyone else have any input on this information?

As to falling and rolling, my experience has been that serious falls come so fast that you don't even KNOW you've taken the dive until you've all ready landed. As to unclipping, my pedals automatically come unclipped upon hard impact. My understanding is that they are supposed to do this, sort of like the airbag going off. My shoes have unclipped twice during hard falls. I don't worry about staying clipped-in if I hit a surface that cause a hard fall...I know the shoes/pedals work.

Also, if I know I'm going to fall well, MAYBE one foot makes it out but that still doesn't mean I'm not going to come up bruised, ect because I broke the fall. Also, my body tends to wait a day or so before it decides to flair up in pain from a fall. It's always been my understanding that when people have minor car fender-benders that the pain from the car jolting doesn't come on for a few days, so, this makes sense if you look at the fact that riding is exceleration and hitting a soild object that cause a fall cause the body to go into a "shock" mode for a day or so.

I had a pretty good run on Saturday (Trail #100), but we started late. By 10:30, the Phoenix sun was in it's glory, so we didn't finish the entire loop...even the dogs we passed were dragging and beat from the early heat. Luck for us, the sun is now rising at 5:30 and it's already in the high 60's at that time. Time to go north...
BTW, there's a great MB race in the Prescott area this weekend. It is on a fantastic trail called the Great Basin Loops. Loop'py doop, boulders that your pedals won't fit through, and creeks that criss-cross the trail making it one heck of a ride.
Cosmic Ray, "the 1/2 oracle 1/2 sage" of AZ trails to bike/hike, gives it his primo stamp of approval...just watch out for trees that grab your derailers and horse manure.
Terry