The Art of Falling

If an idiot falls in the woods and no one is there to see it, does he tell? If he has a blog he does!

So there I am enjoying my "church" time (where the rest of my family was), riding my cross bike on the road then offroad then back on the road to go home again. I am in the middle of a lovely, albeit confused weather-wise, forest adjusting my ear piece (I only wear one - so I can hear cars and cries for help - usually from myself) and absentmindedly had one pedal up and one down when sure enough the down pedal smacks a rock sending me hurtling face-first into the ground.

It was one of those great slow-motion falls. It seemed like I had all the time in the world to decide where to fall, how to fall, how to land, seeing the minute details. Then boom, I am down like a bag of bricks.

I am there lying on the ground, intertwined with my bicycle when I decide to fight the urge to get up quickly so as not to look like I've no idea what I am doing. It is January and besides deer, there is not anyone around. So I enjoy some quiet time on the ground. It is then that I envision I missed seeing something on my trip down and see them running towards me with an "oh my god, he is not moving" that forces me up.

I decide to call home and leave a message with my itinerary, you know, just in case next time my helmet doesn't do it job... Or perhaps if my brain doesn't do it's job (keeping your pedals level in a forest is mountain biking 101). It is then that I am passed by two hikers. Now I feel like an idiot for (a) not seeing them before and (b) for talking on my cell phone in "church" and (c) for lying on the ground like a sack of bricks. Idiot.

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