Even the little ones rattle your cage. My second ride withteh guy I have now been dating for 6 months proved to me how great a guy he was. He knew I was a racer, had ridden with me only once before... I swear 1 mile into our second ride I fell hard. Bloodied my nose, hurt my hand and bruised and tweaked everthing. I rode like crap the rest of the ride. Big surprise there, right? The ride was with all his buddies where he was trying to "show off" his new riding partner. I kept appologising to him for not keeping up like I knew I could and such. He finally turned to me and said..."look, its raining, you are on an unfamilar trail, you crahsed really hard, you have a headache and you did NOT once say you wanted to turn around and go back. I am soo proud to have you here with me!" You have nothing to prove to me, now relax and ride at the pace you are comfortable with.... no one rides hard after a crash like that!

Confidence come back after crashes we know that, just takes time and of course more trails! How cool was it that you got to actually ride better than some one you never have beaten though...love that feeling. You know things will be in order again eventually, but for a little while you can enjoy the "top dog" seat.