Show me your best bruises! (not for the squeamish)

[jobob]

Four days after my very first mtn bike ride ever, with SadieKate.

Yeah, I bruise easily.

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Egads...now THOSE are some SERIOUS bruises!!! How did you manage that? What did you land on and how fast?

[jobob]

Basically, I'm a klutz. I certainly wasn't going fast, I just skidded and tipped over & landed on some rocks on the side of the trail.

Heh, and then there was the time not too long after that when LeeBob & I went mtn biking with maillotpois. Lee took the brunt of that one. Though I managed a couple of nifty little falls as well. Guess I'm just not well suited to mtn biking.

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Basically, I'm a klutz. I certainly wasn't going fast, I just skidded and tipped over & landed on some rocks on the side of the trail.

Sounds like when I did this one, though I just landed on sand and roots:


I'm not well-suited to anything that takes grace or coordination...doesn't stop me, though. I'm a slow learner...

[GLC1968]

I don't bruise, at all.

I fell on my shin once, hit it so hard that I split the skin open through my jeans and yet I didn't bruise. 6+ years of rugby and my teammates thought there was something seriously wrong with me since I never had any 'war wounds' to show.

And when I fell and twisted my right foot so badly that I ripped my ligaments completely from my bones (and broke one bone) I had zero bruising...even after surgery. The only bruise I had was that tiny little dark spot on my 2nd toe. Even the doc was surprised!

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I wish I didn't bruise...here's from a few days after my ankle sprain. I had so much swelling that the actual bruising didn't look as bad as it likely was:

[Kalidurga]

Day 1 after a crash on the C&O Canal towpath--





By day 3, it was like an alien that took over my leg--