So...I went for a ride today before the 3 days of rain begin. I nice hilly ride. Instead of driving my car to the bottom of my road where I normally start my rides, I decided to just start right from my house.
I live on a dirt road and it's almost a mile straight downhill. The road was recently graded so there's a lot of soft dirt and rocks on it. It's a little more packed down now, so I figured I could handle the downhill and some of the uphill when I got back. When I did get back and was riding up, I got sucked into the soft dirt. It kept pulling my bike to the right hand side of the road. I tried to steer back to the center where the dirt was packed down but it just wasn't working.
Remember it's steep uphill and soft dirt so I'm going about 4 or 5 mph at this point. I knew this wasn't going to end well and went to yank one of my cleats out of its pedal so I could just stop, but it wouldn't yank and then.... over I went! Kaboom! Thankfully it was soft dirt and not too many rocks so I didn't land too hard and it actually just made me laugh. But it got a little more ridiculous because I realized I was stuck! Because of the way I was tangled up in the bike I didn't have the right leverage to unclip from my pedals. Finally I had a bright idea and reached down and took off one of my shoes. Then I was able to stand up, still attached to the bike with the other foot, unclip that foot and hobble over to the grassy side of the road. I detached my now empty shoe from the pedal, put it back on my foot and walked the rest of the way to my house. I only suffered minor cuts on my elbow and it was just too funny to be upset about it.
Nobody witnessed it at all...and I didn't even have to tell anyone...but I just had to! ;-)
And Rich bandaged my elbow like a good nurse.
