Tour de Crash

I toats biffed it today on my bike. My friend Tak and I went biking on a trail at the park here called the "Tour de Wolf". It is a 6 mile trail that goes around Shelby Farms. It's an awesome trail, but definitely not for people who don't know what they are doing. :( I've been on parts of it when walking Kate and biking here and there, but I've never been the full 6 miles. Today we only went 4.5 miles. I was excited and planned on going the full six, but realized my unhealthy habits have gotten me a bit out of shape. Not to mention I hadn't eaten, it was high noon and my knee was hurting from my crash. So, we cut through the dog park and headed back for lunch (where I almost blacked out as I went inside the visitors center to try and throw up.... I've been feeling kinda sick all week... Fever and headache for a few days). After getting some food in me I was better.

SO!!! my epic crash.... Toats epic. We are starting out on our ride headed up the pavement to the dirt trail and were going pretty fast. We slowed down as we got to the trail and tak thought it would be a good idea for me to go first because his bike was a little jacked up. So I go ahead and I realize I'm going fast but I didn't think it was that fast. So were going and just as we reach the forest, there was a dip and it was a bigger dip than I thought, so I started to break. My hand only hit the front breaks. So my back end comes up and I try to stop it by sitting and leaning back but that threw off my balance and I crashed with my bike landing on my left side, the gears hi my right leg and my hand lands in a bush. I got a splinter and my bike alignment got thrown out of whack. Lol I couldn't stop laughing and after fixing it we continued the trail and did it without death! :) yay! I guess you could say I've earned my "stripes".


I'm going to be so sore tomorrow...