I fell off of my bike again this last weekend. It sucked because I was having such a good day. I had just given an inspirational workshop that introduced the game design program on campus to a bunch of under privileged high school students. It ran super well and the students came up with awesome mechanics in only 1 hour! So it put me in a good mood afterward.

I was on the bike path and at the end there’s a weird turn and dip at the same time with a curb placed in an inconvenient spot. I was going too fast and I knew it! But I couldn’t brake because it wouldn’t do anything, so I sat on my bike expecting a crash. Unfortunately there’s a wooden post right behind the curb, so it stopped my momentum. One good thing was that my landing was really soft. I was on grass! When I got up, I thought, “O man, that was embarassing. Did anyone see me flip 360 degrees?” I quickly jumped up and thought, “O wow, I dont hurt at all.” Then I heard air coming out from my front tire. My bike was still standing upright, by the way, it was really strange. But the impact didn’t damage the wheel at all. I’m so relieved! I was expecting the rim to be all bent and ugly.

The bad part? Well turns out my arm got screwed pretty bad. It felt like death 5 minutes later. In slow motion, I think my right arm hit the wooden post 7 times while my body was flying past it. You can tell because of the distinct contact patterns my arm had. It took a day for my bruises to rise to the surface. It looked different everyday, actually. I have photos! But I don’t think people really want to see them, so I didn’t post it. Maybe in the future.

Anyways, from all of this, I’m happy none of my joints are in trauma like my last crash. My first fall on my road bike was on February 3 and it wasn’t until 2 weeks ago when all of the pain finally went away. From this recent crash, the only joint pain I have is in my thumb. The only inconvenience that brings is having to be extra careful in aikido. Other than that, my arm is still all bruised but at least it doesn’t hurt if I don’t touch it.

Oh, I should mention that I can’t feel anything if I scratch the surface on some parts of my arm now. Is that normal after impact for 4 days? Haha.