Sunday in I rode with CNYDirt. I think it was the first Dirt ride of the year.
This year I planned to ride once per month with dirt. When I ride with the SRC guys we go slowly, and I'm not getting better. The CNYDirt rides are typically very fast and I'll get a lot better riding with them. The problem with riding with them is that they ride long on Sunday. I just don't have that much time. So once a month is a good compromise.
There were about nine guys on Sunday's ride. The ride leader was Frizz, there was a tall guy named Jeff, and a guy with a funny accent named Brian. We rode from Corcoran high school on the trails that Deb and I used to ride when we lived near there.
We took a long food break at OCC, and then rode down through the woods at breakneck speed. It was very fun to just race through the woods as fast as possible. We came into clearing, and I was the fourth bike. We went up and over of huge mound of dirt, I noticed the first two guys got a lot of air when they went over the lip. The guy in front of me slowed way down when he got to it, so I did too. But I was still going too fast (obvious in retrospect). I flipped over the downside, landing on my shoulder in a pile driver position.
I knew right away that my shoulder was hurt pretty badly. We were close to the road, and I had help getting my bike helmet and Camelback out to the road. Eric was at our house for a play date so Deb couldn't come get me. Jeff lived close to their so everyone else took off for the rest of the ride, he went and got his truck and drove me back to Corcoran high school. I had Big Blue, so I could drive home since it has automatic transmission. It was a slow and very painful ride.
By the time I got home to get rid of Eric and was ready to take me and the kids to urgent care in
On Monday and I went to see the orthopedic doctor with Debra. He says the collarbone will heal on its own, that there is very little he can do to help it heal. He also said that one of the bones in my left wrist is fractured. He gave me a splint for my wrist and a figure 8 brace for my shoulder. I go back in a week to see how I'm healing.
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I've been struggling to figure out how I should've written the jump differently. One thing I learned at the Shaums camp was to scout jumps before you go off them. I didn't do that in this case. But I didn't think it was a jump. And riding with CNYDirt there will be lots of times where I don't know the trails and have to rely on the people in front of me. I just haven't been able to picture how I should've written a differently, since it was so steep and so high.
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Tonight to Deb and the kids and I went to look at the jump and it's not high or steep. It's not very impressive at all. I could easily rollover that thing all day long. I think I just hit it too fast and somehow got thrown over the handlebars. I think there are two things to work on after this: first, basic bike position to keep my balance. And second being comfortable in the air.
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