I Ride, I Write

I’m a sissy, OK.

The crash probably wasn’t a big deal compared to most, but I’m still going to say it hurt — because I still have a swollen hand and two fingers that don’t bend without pain.

But I’m healing. Aside from my hand injury I hit my shoulder pretty hard on the ground.

Here’s photographic evidence seven days after the crash that the impact was pretty solid. The bruising is a nice shade and got a few ‘Whoa, dude. What happened to you.” responses at the pool the other day.

I just tell them my wife hit me with a frying pan. It sound less sissy-like than telling them I did an endo while going five miles per hour on the BST.

In other news, I think I may have found a new favorite training ride when I don’t need or want a lot of climbing.

Friday, I hit the road — not literally this time — with a friend before the sun came up and we explored the new Redwood Road into Utah County. To avoid putting pressure on the hand and wrist (yes, the wrist is sore, too) I used the triathlon bike and kept in the aero position.

Let me tell you, this is a sweet stretch of asphalt. If they can just get a street sweeper out there frequently, it might be ideal. Nice wide road with very wide bike lanes and smooooooooth.

We traveled south and turned at Saratoga Springs toward Eagle Mountain and Cedar Fort. Time was kind of short and we turned around at Cedar Fort rather than go all the way to Tooele and around the mountain.

We still got 62 miles in and the temps warmed up nicely.

When I get the chance, I will be sure to use this route often.

Nice road, very few stop signs or lights, limited traffic and a town every 5-10 miles most of the way to use as refueling stations.