When things might not go according to your plans.

Today I just realized that bicycles and cars sharing a narrow road is not such a good idea and why? It can be very dangerous especially when it involves a traffic circle. Now from my house to the traffic circle is downhill all the way and some motorist simply ignores the stop sign cos of the fact that they are to lazy to brake and they simply just carry on. To be honest that's Robertson people for you.

Now while going down this bumpy road all the way to the traffic circle before heading up a fairly steep short climb, you don't really think of braking at a high speed and take your one foot out of the pedal as fast as you can. In my case the traffic was fairly good until someone decided to brake in the middle of the road near the circle which backed up the vehicles going in the same direction causing drama as you hear hooters and people shouting for the car to get out of the way. I just watched it as it happened.

Now a few meters from our house is the provincial hospital and yes I don't recommend people to go there but the drama continues as I couldn't brake in time to miss the car standing in front of me. Its either braking and lose control or just head straight into the car and well at that point I braked as fast as I could and ended up crashing. Yes not the best choice but I wouldn't dare seeing myself going through someone's car back window and ending up getting major injuries.

After a while lying there in pain, I just picked myself up and carrying on and well that wasn't the easiest thing. With the grind on my face explaining the pain, all that was going through my mind was to get back home as fast as possible. At that point, you just really hope for the best. Sadly some people don't have any respect for cyclists using the roads and most of the town roads don't have any yellow lines only the main roads. Lots of discussions went into this for safety reasons and till today no feed back.

So I see myself for a couple of days getting rest and recover to start training again. Its a very painful story but sometimes you simply can't avoid anything.

Thanks everyone for the support as it means a lot.

Till next time!

Yolande