Limping Along

It was warm and humid up on the levee this morning, and for some reason we had more people than usual for a Friday. Quentin's knee seems to have recovered and so he was spending a lot of time at the front. Some Fridays when there are only a few riders we hardly break 21 mph, but today we spent most of the time closer to 23, which was actually pretty nice.

The fallout from my crash yesterday seems to have focused on my ribs and ankle. Otherwise, my neck is a little stiff, which always happens after a fall, the cuts on my thumb are irritating but minor, as are the light scrapes on my knee and arm. The ribs, though, hurt every time I sneeze or laugh or, for that matter, breathe. I know from experience I'll likely be living with that for a few weeks. The ankle is ugly. It's still quite swollen with a nice black and blue band of pooled blood at the bottom. Fortunately, it's really not painful to ride as long as I'm seated, although I've developed a bit of a limp when I walk. I never was very fond of walking anyway. I guess I must have put that right foot down hard on the slope of the levee and rolled the ankle. Not really anything to do for it except wait, I'm afraid. It might be a week or two or three before I can stand on the pedals and sprint, though.

So tomorrow I'll put on my official's hat for our club's annual 2-Person Time Trial. The registration and results is ready but largely untested, the numbers are sorted, the traffic cones and water jugs are waiting by the door to be loaded into the car at 5 am along with all the other essentials. I went out and bought two new stopwatches since a few of the older ones have become unreliable, and changed the batteries in a few others. I've got copies of the two different kinds of release forms ready to go as well. Hopefully I haven't forgotten anything important, but at this point we will simply make do with what we have. The only thing that would really screw things up would be a severe lack of volunteers. Of course, if need be, a time trial can be handled by about three people, assuming none of them make any mistakes and the riders are really patient about waiting for the results to be posted.