Cycling...again
In my cycling gear. Day three of a 7 day ride of 478 miles. It is hot. It's Iowa. And I am riding with, as many of you know already, Lance Armstrong. Sporting the Team LIVESTRONG kit and preparing to kick off I snap my left foot into my pedal and push off down this ever so slight little hill to get onto the sidewalk so I can head out to conquer the day's 60+ miles.

As I am just about to pop up onto the sidewalk, which was a brand new sidewalk, nice fresh, sharp, clean corners, I realized I couldnt see how high the sidewalk was from the actual ground because the grass was so thick.

It was then that it happened: my front wheel wrenched radically 90 degrees to the left and I had JUST snapped my right foot into my pedal...so I had no free foot to stop my rapid descent onto the sidewalk...bud I DID have my knee! So I ended up catching ALL of my weight directly on my knee cap which was precisely situated to capitalize on the especially sharp nature of this particular sidewalk.

I'm a big guy. At 5'11 and about 195 lbs, thats ALOT of weight to come down on a knee...particularly when the object cushioning that knee is a sharp sharp sharp corner of a sidewalk.

So, the result? One sliver cleanly chipped off my patela. About 1 inch long and .25 inch wide. Its still in there...floating around. I can feel it some days. Oh, and lets not forget the hole in my knee. Surprisingly, the knee bleeds fairly well when struck upon the sharp corner of a sidewalk.

However, in true moron fashion: I finished the ride. The last couple of miles it hurt so bad that I had watery eyes...also known as tears.

The next morning I took plenty of Advil and headed out on my way and ended up completing the entire ride. It still hurts periodically. Brilliant me.

Cheers and Happy Christmas!

Sean
( Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 22:02, 4 replies)

Aha!
So _that's_ how you did it. Ouch indeed!
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 22:19, closed)

Awwwww
Kisses Citadel's boo-boo knee.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Sat 22 Dec 2007, 0:09, closed)

TDub
You can kiss my boo-boo knee ANYtime TDub! :)
( Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Sat 22 Dec 2007, 1:27, closed)

Blimey!
You get extra man points for finishing the ride. That must have taken some doing.
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Sat 22 Dec 2007, 13:49, closed)