Did the Boise Twilight pro crit on Saturday! Well, most of it.. got crashed out with 20 minutes to go in the 90 minute race.
It's a four-corner crit with flat and super smooth/wide roads. Super exciting (and hard) race, ended up with a 31 mph average.
A teammate & I were asked to guest ride on a local Domestic Elite team (that gets callups at this USA Crits series), and I signed up at the last minute to do it, even though it was a terrible idea being less than a week to go until Intelligentsia Cup.
It was of course a huge risk, but what's life without risk right? Well the risk didn't pay off, I got crashed out, broke a bone... now I'm out for Intelligentsia. Super bummer.
I actually felt good during the race - and it was SUPER fun. One of those races where I had a smile (maybe combined with a grimace) the whole time. They said 50k spectators, and it seemed like it - a wall of sound the whole time. Tons of $50 & $100 primes - I never got the chance to go for any but really should have. Looking back I was basically just hanging out and biding my time.
Anyway coming through the start/finish I was taking a drink (with hand off the bars) while in the group and a few riders ahead somone got their front wheel taken out - so before I knew it there was a dude in the fetal position on the ground in front of me.. flipped over the bars, landed on my shoulder/back pretty hard. Shoulder was in lots of pain immediately, but no obvious collar-bone breakage - maybe the plate I have in there from a few years ago saved me?
I couldn't move my arm without pain after that and was immediately out of the race. The medical tent folks though I just had a "sublexacion?", but after I flew back on Sunday and got an x-ray it looks to be a fracture of the "acromion," a bone I never knew I had. It kind of connects the collar bone to your shoulder I guess. Anyway going to a specialist tomorrow and will get details, either way my arm's in a sling and I'm out of commission for a few weeks.
It was worth it though.