thanx for all the well wishes and the laughing with me!

uhm... ok... so crash once every 3 years? well then i shouldn't crash again for another 15 years! cuz i've crashed 7 times in a year and 1 week of riding! (that i can recall.. probably more if i really thought about it!! no wonder hubby likes to call me "crash") (well..... ok... fell over 1 times due to being new to clipless and crashed 6 times but 2 of those again.. due to clipless newbieness this was the most amusing though.....

i've got to stop crashing! i want a new bike!

i wasn't so much shakey... but i was nervous and a lot slower after that... now i could say it was cuz i was tired from two days of long rides.. but no doubt the nervousness played a big part in the slowerness! (ya.. not a word!!!) i think i was too busy thinking about how much my hand hurt and trying to find positions on the handlebar that i could ride! i did stay MUCH further to the left.. away from that AWFUL and MEAN shoulder that had sand... that would make me fall and go boom again! hubby "yelled" at me one time... "i told you car back and you didn't get over" and i replied.. "i got over as far as i was comfortable" (which wasn't much further over than when he told me.. but hey.. i didn't want to get NEAR that sand!)