Arse. Misjudged my setup for the temporary hairpin at the north end of the Shrimpton's Creek Cycleway, clipped the fence on the right, and went down on my left.
Grazed knee, very sore toe, and overstretched calf muscles, but nothing serious. Just some minor scrapes on the left side of the bike, so after straightening the handlebars I was able to get back on it and slowly ride the remaining kilometre to work.
This has taught me a few things...
1. Don't do that again, it hurts. I was in a hurry, thinking of other things, and distracted by some nearby pedestrians, but this tight turn requires my undivided attention.
2. The crash detection function on my Garmin Forerunner 255 watch works as intended. My watch and phone both beeped for a while before sending an incident notification email with live GPS location link to my wife, then when I finally cancelled it sent an "I'm OK actually, I don't need help" follow up notification.
3. If I'm going to crash, crash closer to home. Now I'm at the office with my bike feeling like I'm not going to be able to ride it home or walk to and from train stations with it. Might need to leave it parked in the staff bike storage room here until after the holidays.
Huh, maybe this is going to be OK after all.
After staying off my left foot all of yesterday evening and overnight (I was fortunate that we had a pair of old crutches lying around the house to help with that) it is feeling much better today. There's a very vivid bruise coming through on the underside and side of my foot, but it seems that nothing is broken at least.
I am a bit confused how I managed to give my foot such a wallop through my stiff cycling shoes, but clearly I did.
Oh well. Rest, icing, maybe some more ibuprofen, and hopefully I'll be fit to travel tomorrow.
Anthony Horton
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