broken

well, looks like I am off the bike for about 6 weeks...

3rd lap at the grizzly harescramble, coming out of the obstacle course I came off the last roller forgetting the log obstacle that obstructed the landing. I landed square into the logs kicking the rear of the bike up and slowly went over the bars. I landed on my head in the sand like a yard dart and fell to my left shoulder. It hurt, but scrambled to pick up my bike and keep going, but when I picked the bike up I heard a crack and nearly passed out. I pretty much knew what had happened and later x-rays would verify that my collar bone broke.

The race itself was fairly gnarly... tons of mud and most the wood trails consisted of 1-2 feet deep ruts and was not the best racing since it was difficult to make passes since getting out of a rut and making a line around someone was near impossible (especially the further the race went on).

I had a good start as you can see in one of the pics to the right. That's me, #223, taking the outside line. There was only a few riders in front of me, so probably 4th or 5th into the first corner. Unfortunately going into the woods a rider went down directly in front of me with no way around and I had to wait for him to recover and it put us about mid-pack.

I hope to still ride Idaho city. I may change my class to a non-loi class.