Piercing a lung and cracked ribs are serious business, Apple for hubby!

I actually find in-between weather when it looks deceptively freezing temp. ..the probability of black ice is real. I've fallen 4 times with the 5th as my head injury collision with another cyclist in a city where there was no snow, no ice. Just mild, sunny weather.

The 4 times have ALL been on black ice/sheer ice or old, bumpy ice over the past decade. The 4th fall was actually unknown to me at the time, on the day that my father died. On a clear sunny day, I fell on old bumpy ice very slowly on a quiet residential street about 2 hrs. before I found out my father died. That was Dec. 20th.

So my left leg actually has 2 sets of bruises (plus a scrape) from 2 separate falls/crashes that occurred nearly 3 wks. apart.

When I know there is a high probability of black ice, I won't bike. I've learned my lesson..several times.

these last few weeks has been packed with alot of life-changing events.

In the winter, I try to minimize risk by cycling on bike paths when there isn't a lot of users. I know a collision occurred to me on a bike path but seriously in a snowier area like Calgary (not Vancouver), I'd rather fall on the bike path, not the road in the paths of cars.