So, it did happen, despite all my positive thinking. :)
It hurts.
I mean, on the scale of 1 to 10, it's probably a 2 where a 1 is a papercut or something.
I got confident, clipped in both feet on the way out of the driveway, got ready to practice clipping out, and then proceeded to fall to my left while trying to unclip my left.
It did happen very slowly.
I think I forgot or underestimated the power / strength to unclip - something that I got used to yesterday.
I'm such a prissy person, and made a conscious decision many many years ago (perhaps in high school) that I would never fall ever again. And since then I've only fallen once or twice.
[In other news, I wish I had a brother growing up - I feel like I would have grown up less prissy. Although one would argue that my sister isn't prissy at all and even tried her best to make me less prissy.]
So I bent my left hood, and I'm not sure what that means, so I'll have to take it to the Local Bike Shop (LBS) when they open at 11am and see whether it's all ok to ride / whether it's a quick fix.
I'm getting new (smaller) handlebars put on this week, so I'm not too fussed as everything was being undone anyway - but it is a shame if I can't ride it until then.
After going upstairs to put some bandaids on, I went back downstairs and had a few goes of clipping and unclipping my left, to see if I could give it another go to get on the road, but I didn't want to.
I have to admit, then I sat down and had a little disappointed cry.
(image via livenerddierepeat.com from a post about how robots are going to kill us one day?)
However, I still want to put some kms in this week as I'm down 60km from my usual target.
I might take my commuter out, since I'm awake and it's 7:30am - to "get back on the bike" as they say... :)
