Here is my helmet after my wreck at the Tour de lizard on sept 11, 2010. I was chasing JP Brocket for the win in the marathon class when I had a mishap on the third lap. It was my first marathon race so I was taking a pretty easy pace until this lap when I started to make my move. JP was ahead of me, not sure how much, but I was giving it my all to try and bridge. I lost focus on a pretty technical downhill section with a tight right hand bend and a rooted drop about half way down. I was too far forward when I went over the rooted drop and went over the bars. I remember seeing a large rock that I was going to collide head first with when I tucked my head and let the helmet take it. It trashed my helmet and left a large bump on my forehead. I bruised both shoulders, tore my jersey and fractured my knee cap. After a bit of cursing I remounted and continued through the third lap and completed another lap to finish five minutes behind JP. Two weeks later I went to the doctor because my knee was still swollen and he drew off 15 ML of blood and xrayed my knee. Told me that my knee was fractured and that most people don't even want to walk in this condition, but he said it was clean fracture and that I could continue to ride as long as I could bare the pain. I left the Dr's office and went on a 40 mile road ride. LOL.
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