{"id":16,"date":"2008-01-03T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2010-05-26T06:29:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:29:25","slug":"walking-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Walking Wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I am on the walking wounded list, but not from mountain biking.\u00a0\u00a0 For those who have been following the blog\u00a0you will remember I took a good thump\u00a0while getting some\u00a0flight lessons<\/a>\u00a0near Alpine about a month ago.\u00a0 Part of the\u00a0thump was on my right hip that resulted in a\u00a0huge technicolor bruise on my right leg and hip.\u00a0\u00a0 I had just gotten over that for the most part.\u00a0\u00a0 So after being gone all day on\u00a0December 29th\u00a0doing the Palm Canyon Epic<\/a>, my boys were itching for some dad time.\u00a0 So on the\u00a030th, I took them out to our local inline hockey rink\u00a0 for\u00a0some\u00a0skate time.\u00a0\u00a0 I was pretty beat from the\u00a0day before so I decided that I would not\u00a0be playing, but instead I would just\u00a0screw around\u00a0and keep feeding passes to the boys.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So instead of putting on the\u00a0whole hockey gear package, I left the griddle in the bag.\u00a0 Bad\u00a0call!<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Will\u00a0<\/p>\n

So while messing around my oldest boy decides that it will “funny” to check Dad.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course it would be even funnier if Dad was not looking.\u00a0\u00a0 So my boy clocks be really good, and I swear I got completely horizontal prior loosing any altitude.\u00a0\u00a0 BAM!\u00a0\u00a0 It was all I could do not to call Child Protective Services to inform them that something really bad was about to happen to my kid and they were not going to get there in time.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 I had landed exactly on the same spot I had hurt the month before.\u00a0 It hurt like hell but in a different way than before, this felt more sharp that the bruising before.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I ditched my ride scheduled for the next day and waited a couple of days to test it out on the bike.\u00a0\u00a0 When I did get on the bike I felt okay peddling on the road out to my local ride (Lake Calvera<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 It even felt okay on the smooth stuff.\u00a0 However when riding on rocky stuff, anything that requires body English, and getting off the saddle things got painful in a hurry.\u00a0 After an hour I was uncomfortable and basically not a happy camper on the bike.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0It is never a good time to get injured, but this was quite\u00a0unfortunate timing as I was\u00a0planning heading out to Sedona to meet up and ride with some friends from Colorado and NorCal\u00a0in a little over a week.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t see\u00a0my hip being in shape for multiple\u00a0back-to-back days of riding so I had to cancel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Major League Bummage!<\/p>\n

\"Arizona<\/p>\n

I’m going to get some\u00a0X-rays done in the next day or so to see if\u00a0I did something really bad.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

-Bill<\/p>\n

\u00a0UPDATE 11-JAN-08:<\/span><\/strong> I could insert bunch of Doctor verbage stuff here but basically the X-rays showed that I had not fractured anything, but I’ll need to take it easy for a couple more weeks.\u00a0 Yipee!<\/p>\n

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