Down and Out for Now
I went out for short MTB ride on my first day of vacation in 10 months. I hit a front range trail called Dinosaur Ridge knowing it would be dry. I started at Red Rocks and worked my way around to the ridge. Along the way I stopped and helped a guy with a broken chain. You can never have enough good karma. Half way through the Ridge I came down a steep technical section only to be surprised by 5 guys sitting on their bikes blocking the trail. I made a split second decision to turn and avoid hitting all of them and it cost me. I went down hearing a loud pop. None of them offered to help me up or back to my car. I rode out the rest of the trail with one leg and drove myself home. My wife took me to the emergency room so the doctors could tell me that I had a non-displaced fracture of the fibula in my right leg. I’m on crutches for the next 5-6 weeks. Whatever happened to trail etiquette? Or just being helpful. I know I will run into those guys again. I see the ortho doctor on Friday. I only hope for good news. Any advise for recovery other than stay off it?
Gerry
Great Weekend Reading
Put some paper in the printer kids, here’s some great weekend reading.
LeMond vs Trek (Armstrong). Apparently, Trek was basically extorting LeMond to get him to stop saying he thought Armstrong had doped.
One of the highlights:
LeMond tells how a US Postal mechanic told him that Lance paid Hein Verbruggen $500,000 to back-date a theraputic-use exemption for an illegal hormone Lance tested positive for.
Personally, I never drank Lance’s Kool-Aid, so I’m not surprised. But this lawsuit really pulls some nasty stuff out into the light.
-SH