{"id":1793,"date":"2014-06-28T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T01:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2015-01-05T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T15:43:13","slug":"esc-enduro-at-blue-mountain-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"ESC Enduro at Blue Mountain, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen sooner or later, I crashed while riding my bike. Unfortunately it was the very first stage of a 5 stage enduro that I was racing in at Blue Mountain in Palmerton, PA. I had ridden this stage a number of times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=1732\" title=\"8 to 8, A Day at Blue Mountain Bike Park\">the week before<\/a> and was very comfortable with the terrain but on race day I let the pressure of throwing down a fast race run get the better of me.<br \/>\nLuckily my shop sponsor, Rob from <a href=\"http:\/\/communitybikesandboards.com\" title=\"Community Bikes and Boards\" target=\"_blank\">Community Bikes and Boards<\/a> was right there to capture the event, video below. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/98941959?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I was coming through the beginning of stage 1 I wound up clipping my left pedal on a rock that was embedded in the trail, you can clearly hear it in the video. I really didn&#8217;t need to put in a pedal stroke at this point but I felt compelled to. Had I coasted for a second out of the turn prior to striking the rock I would have wound up having a fun day of racing. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n<p>After I got up, Rob jumped into action and helped me make my way off of the mountain. He also made sure that I had my injuries looked at by the medical staff who sent me to the local ER, I can&#8217;t thank him enough! I also am fortunate to have friends far and wide. My friend Dave Leventhal was racing that day and made himself available to get my car to me after I was done in the ER. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10494676_10152212705787076_707915273965336439_n.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10494676_10152212705787076_707915273965336439_n.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"separation x-ray\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10494676_10152212705787076_707915273965336439_n.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10494676_10152212705787076_707915273965336439_n.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10494676_10152212705787076_707915273965336439_n.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10494676_10152212705787076_707915273965336439_n.jpg?resize=160%2C160&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wound up with a separated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D3GVKjeY1FM#t=72\" title=\"AC Joint Explained\" target=\"_blank\">AC joint<\/a>, sore ribs and some scratches up and down my back. It appears that I will most likely be off of the bike until sometime later this summer. I think it will be sooner and I attribute this to my overall fitness level at the time of the accident. My coach, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonnygmtb.com\" title=\"Jonny G MTB\" target=\"_blank\">Jonny G<\/a>, has kept me on track with some intense workouts since winter and I was finally at a place where the hard work was going to pay off. His training routine will certainly help me recover more quickly. If you are looking for a coach to help with any kind of mountain bike training, give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonnygmtb.com\" title=\"Jonny G MTB\" target=\"_blank\">Jonny G<\/a> a shout!<\/p>\n<h4>What&#8217;s next?<\/h4>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll start physical therapy next week and take it one day at a time. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really bummed that I&#8217;ll miss the USAC Super D Nationals this year but these things happen in mountain bike racing. With this major setback in my schedule I&#8217;ll turn my sights on the Fall enduro races.<br \/>\nI now fully understand how mountain bike friends (Ed, Elinor, Kyle, Karen) feel after an injury has them sidelined, it&#8217;s hard to sit on the sidelines. More importantly, I&#8217;m also getting a sense for how my wife feels when one of her favorite activities is taken away from her due to her ongoing cancer treatment or a side effect of it. It really makes me appreciate everything.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;ll be tortured by the endless supply of images on social media of friends out riding their bikes.<\/p>\n<h4>Risks<\/h4>\n<p>As any mountain bike enduro racer will tell you, we all take risks when we head out on a course. We know and understand the risks but also understand that we&#8217;ve been doing this for years and those risks become less likely with the increase in rider skill level. In my case a split second decision led to a split second crash. At least I gained a pretty cool looking race kit out of the ordeal.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10368372_10152206744487076_245855722753875823_o.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10368372_10152206744487076_245855722753875823_o.jpg?resize=720%2C960&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Made the drive home!\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10368372_10152206744487076_245855722753875823_o.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10368372_10152206744487076_245855722753875823_o.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10368372_10152206744487076_245855722753875823_o.jpg?w=852&amp;ssl=1 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen sooner or later, I crashed while riding my bike. Unfortunately it was the very first stage of a 5 stage enduro that I was racing in at Blue Mountain&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,35,17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enduro","category-races","category-trail-riding","category-training-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10494676_10152212705787076_707915273965336439_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YdqL-sV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2256,"url":"https:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=2256","url_meta":{"origin":1793,"position":0},"title":"Eastern States Cup Enduro at Blue Mountain","author":"Gerry","date":"June 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"You never know when you are going to experience a family emergency that's why they call them emergencies. 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