Okay a Trail Feature will define your day if you crash!!!

A couple of blog posts ago, I wrote about that not doing a trail feature doesn't define your ride.  Well last night I did the drop and crashed hard.  Words to myself like "dumb-ass" came to mind as I was trying to catch my breath and getting up to walk it off.  Sore knee (yes no knee pads), bruised ribs and a left arm that I can barely raised above my shoulder.  Afterward, the crashed mellowed me out and decided to take it easy on the ride home.  I started laughing after the pain subsided that the feature that defined my ride previously because cause I didn't do it; definitively defined my ride when I attempted it for the first time and crashed.  There's irony  in there somewhere.  

 My friend Gail wrote a poem of my experience:
Bicycle week is an endurance test
So man can prove he is at his best!
He mounts his bike with a polished flair
His bright yellow rain coat flapping in air
Shifting a gear he starts on his way
Picking up speed – wheeling through the spray
Ignoring the route of the normal man
He moves ahead with a riskier plan
A hop over bumps – a jog to the right
He sails off a ramp right out of sight
His landing unseats the man from his grip
And to the wet ground he’s let himself slip
A poke to the ribs – a bump to the knee
Not even his shoulder is painlessly free
He musters his strength bolstered with pride
Mounts up on the seat to finish the ride
Once in his office he’ll slouch in his chair
Check out his bruises and mutter a prayer
Bicycle week should be held in good weather

So when he spills he lands like a feather!

So true Gail and thanks for the "pick me up" of words

----WAB1234----

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