Sometimes when you least expect it, the little crashes turn into the not so little injuries. Like the other day I went for a famed last lap and things went wrong… It always seems that when you are just going out for a 50 percent day, you get taken out. Last week I went for a chill day in Whistler Bike Park, with my sister and two non-freeride friends. I was just trying to get out from behind the books and wanted a chill day in whistler and I almost got it too. The day was mostly great! We rode trails like B-line and Crank-it-up all day, and took a long lunch with friends. Good times.
After the day I decided to take one chill solo lap down A-Line. Long of the short of it, I was about 200 feet from the bottom in the biker-cross and slid out in a dry loose berm. I was going quite slow and thought I was fine, so I jumped back on my bike and continued on my way. I actually thought it was pretty stupid and was laughing to myself. Maybe a small amount of road rash I thought to myself, until I noticed blood all over my pants and frame. Turns out I must have clipped a sharp rock. There was actually very little road rash but a deep cut, with blood streaming out of it.
That was a bad way to end a day, but the worst part was yet to come. The emergency in Whistler is pretty much always a wait, so I decided to clean the wound out myself and drive back to Port Moody. It turns out the cut was deeper than I thought and was through all my layers of skin down to the muscle. I rinsed it all out with distilled water and then realized that I was not going to be fixing it with a couple butterflies when I could pull the layers of skin away from part of the muscle. All my friends were ridiculously grossed out. I poured a bunch of peroxide on the wound which hurt!! Rinsed it wrapped it and got my butt to the hospital.
The aftermath was 15 stitches and getting put on the bench for 10 days. Great… more time to study my Economics books! It has been healing well thought and the doctor was worried about infection but I think I’m off scott-free on that one! With the weather nice and the season ramping up I can’t wait for it to heal!
Tags: Crashing, Dylan Korba, Injuries, Park Riding, Riding, Whistler, Whistler Mountain Bike Park