For some of those who don't know, last weekend I overshot a jump and jammed both ankles landing into the face of the next jump. As my next race back, last Saturday, I decided to race again as everything was in tact and feeling great. Before I got more than a third of a lap in in practice once, my bike tracked sideways on the landing of a smaller tabletop. Not having enough momentum, or height I wasn't able to bring it back. I hit sideways and was ejected from the bike. Upon landing I caught my leg and twisted it at the knee almost backwards and landed on it. I laid on the track while EMS talked me though things, as I was able to tough it out and walk back to the truck, my blood pressure dropped and I had a red-flash out. I laid down in the truck and made the two hour trip home. When we returned home my knee was 3 times the size of my other and in a horrid pain and looseness. I'm on crutches for the being until I go get X rays and talk to an orthopedic surgeon this week. Without X rays I can be anywhere to walking again in a few weeks to having ligament repair surgery. So ladies and gentlemen, I'm saying my prayers I'm back on two feet to race one more time this year, but things don't always turn out that way.
