Face Plant....

This is Beth....as you may have seen on my facebook update, I did a total face plant off my bike yesterday. Here's how it goes.

We take our bikes to the grocery store....get some food and I carry it via back pack for the ride home. Luckily it was cold out, so I wore pants and a sweat shirt. We are taking the back way home (off the main street) assuming there will be no cars. We come up to the one way street in front of our flat and the cars are backed up.....something must have been going on the main road as our street is normally never busy (this morning we saw that they stripped the main street as they are going to repave - so must have redirected all the traffic to our street). Now, there is a flat space in front of our flat that we use to ride up to our front door - but now it's taken over by cars.....alright, so the curb it is!!! I'm ahead of JaNae and going pretty slow, so think the two inch curb in front of me should be no problem. I stand up on my bike, head for the curb and pull up for a hop....only, I did it too soon. So my front tire comes down right in front of the curb and the bike comes to an immediate halt.

At this point, it's slow motion for me. I fly over the bike and do a face plant/belly flop onto the cement and skid a bit. I'm slightly in shock and all I can hear is JaNae laughing! Her and the mess of cars next to me saw the whole thing! I landed on my front and my elbows (which are still hurting a day later). JaNae finally asks me if I'm OK and now all I can do it laugh - still laying face down on the side walk. I decide to get up, but can't because the handle bars are intertwined with my legs! I ask JaNae for help, but she is still laughing so hard! After a minute, she catches on that I need help and removes the bike from my legs.

Besides my arms/elbows being sore, my only other battle wound is a small cut on my thumb where I landed on a tiny rock......none of the groceries were compromised either. All safe and sound. Just wish we could have gotten this on tape!!!