Our plan was to ride Saturday morning, load our things in the afternoon and head up to the lake that evening. We had just finished coming down Butterfield Canyon and I had wondered a ways ahead of Jen. I decided to soft pedal until Jen caught up and while doing so I suddenly hear behind me "Ahhhhhhh"! I then felt the impact of a bike crunching into the back of my bike. I struggled to stay up at first but then I looked behind me to see Jen flying through the air over her handle bars and smashing, face first, into the dirt. My first thought was "oh no, this is going to be bad." I stopped to see Jen spitting out rocks and bleeding pretty bad from her knee and elbow. It took some time for her to gather herself enough to get on the bike and ride the rest of the way home. She must of had some serious adrenaline flowing at the time because by the time we got home she collapsed on the stairs exhausted and overcome. It turned out that she had some serious bruising to her knee and some good road rash but remarkably nothing on her face. I asked if I could take a picture to document her first major (there have been lots of minor) crash but she would have none of it.
After analyzing what went wrong we decided we were both somewhat at fault (mostly hers but a little bit of mine too.) I wasn't paying attention at how fast she was gaining on me as I was waiting and she apparently got distracted looking at a yard sale that we were just passing and seeing a nice set of drums that she thought would be cool to own. She didn't notice I was going slower than her at the time and Boom! I'm pretty sure the people at the yard sale thought we were idiots as they witnessed the whole thing.
Our bikes sustained some damage that we've been mostly able to repair. Nothing too bad. My back tubular tire that I just had replaced had a chunk of rubber taking out by her pedal but I've been able to use a patch on the tire itself and it's seems to be holding up.
As for our vacation, well we were delayed somewhat in leaving that night and Jen wasn't able to ride for the first few days we were there. But about mid-week she got back on the bike and road quite a bit given that it seemed to help loosen up her hurt knee. We had fun with our kids on the lake and hiking Logan Canyon and just hanging out and being lazy. I've notice Jen is still a little bit skiddish on the bike since the wreck. I'm sure she would say she's just being more cautious and I don't blame here. It will take some time for here to forget and get more comfortable, I think.
This was a typical ride of ours in the morning.
We also enjoyed climbing Logan Canyon.
A funny picture I think.
