Oh, my arm!

So Ashley and I headed down to Fork Shoals, SC yesterday for the South Carolina State road race. It wasn't a great experience so here's a quick recap.

The course was a 13 mile loop with two longer hills (by long I mean about a minute a piece, so not really long), and a really short steeper hill. We only had 3 laps to do on the course, so not too bad.

Every lap we hit the three little hills wide open and then ever other place that turned up on the road. We started with 60-70 riders and we were dwindled down to about 40 by the end of the 3rd lap.

As the last lap was ending and we made a left turn, which was also the 1k to go mark, I was sitting about 8th. Perfect! A guy tried to go up the road and the pace upped enough to no one was coming around but we were sure to catch him. At about 4-500m to go some guy swerved to the right and knocked the guy in front of me to the deck. I tried to stop, but had no where to go and ended up endoing off the side of the road. Which turned to be a good thing because as I hit the ground my hands, face, body, toes, you name it hit and scrapped the ground.

I was pretty disappointed, but that's the way it goes. I hit my left hand on the ground first, and that's what's messed up. I skipped going to the doctor yesterday hoping I would be ok, but headed today to make sure I hadn't broke anything and he said I have an elbow contusion. Which basically means fluid on the elbow, and its bruised some. No road riding for 2 weeks, but I can still hit the trainer. Not exciting, but I'm just glad cross season wont be a bust.

So much for my last three points this month. There's still a few races towards the end of Sept and first of October. Hopefully I can get a few then.

Speaking of cross....have I mentioned I can't wait!

Take care!