Day 231 - Over the Bars (OTB)

Rode with Harold and Roland in the afternoon at Mission Trails. We did the new lap and then headed over to the retaining pond to goof around. The retaining pond is a bunch of large dirt mounds that run around a pond. The abrupt hills offer a technical challenge as we tried to ride a lap around them without putting our foot down. It requires a lot of balance and coordination to navigate the dirt mounds. I made it halfway round. I went OTB (Over the Bars) after hitting a dirt mound wrong. I ended up skinning my left knee pretty good in the fall, blooding up my knee in the process (see pic). Later in the ride, Harold went OTB too, after he rolled over a fence wire that caught his pedal, stopped his bike, and sent him flying OTB. He landed on his shoulder hard. I was following him and nearly ran over him. After a few seconds he got up and brushed himself off and we finished up our ride. On the way home I bandaged my knee up, trying to hide the blood so my wife wouldn't notice. She hates it when I wreck. She told me before I left that if I wrecked I would be grounded.