Year of the Crash......?

Hi, it’s me, Marcie. I know I haven’t been posting in a while. I like to do the disappearing act every once in a while, mostly because either I haven’t actually done anything worth writing about, or I’m injured and I feel like poo and just don’t want to talk about it. This time is the latter. About 6 weeks ago I was riding on our new trail for the first time this season, and next thing I know my bars were sideways and I was flying through the air, landing on my ankle completely sideways. I thought I broke it. It was so painful I couldn’t bear any weight on it whatsoever, and had to ride out the rest of the trail one-legged. My ankle swelled up and became jelly-like when I tried to walk, therefore giving the name to the new trail “Jelly-foot”. Kinda funny I guess. Since then it’s been a long road to recovery. I deliver mail for a living, so that means walking up to 4 hrs/day. Not a lot of time to rest the poor thing, and every day I’m still in a lot of pain. To make matters worse, I decided to try riding again last week. I had one good day on the new Greenstone trail, and the next day went to ride Rio, and ended up doing almost the same sort of crash, except this time I did a full superman lander. LOL - I can laugh about it now, but it was actually not very funny the days afterwards having felt like I got run over by a truck! Argh, I’m too old for this shit. I don’t crash very often, but this year seems like the year of the crash for me. It’s extremely frustrating, like I’m sure you all know, not being able to ride the way I know I can and to have to slow down and take it easy for the time being. But this is all part of what we do. It’s a very risky sport and anything can happen at any time, especially if you like to push your limits!
So that is my verbal diarhea for now! I hope you’re all having a much better summer than me. I have some trips planned for the next few weeks. Swansea, Steamboat, and Paradise mines. I haven’t been to Steamboat or Paradise Mines, so I’m pretty excited for the new adventure. I definitely need it!