Nice night ride tonight. I rode my usual Home to Hospital to meet hubster. I was early, or he was late, one or the other, so I did 3 laps of the hospital complex and then thought 'sod this, it's cold' and texted him and said that I was heading home past Sainsbury's and up Felixstowe Road and he could scoop me as he passed. When I got to the point where I needed to make a decision as Hubster would want to go on the duel carriageway and me on the cyclepath, I texted again to discover the the first one hadn't sent. I said I was riding home and for him to put the kettle on.
I carried on, crossed over to the cyclepath and misjudged it a bit and slid on some ice and crashed into the kerb. I got up, checked if Eric the bike was OK - he was I think - and carried on. I figured that nothing was broken as I could stand up and my hands moved.
I headed off to Trimley, Walton and then headed off up Gulpher Road to add the extra required to do 50km without passing my home and depressing myself. Nothing worse than having to go past home when it's 2 degrees (allegedly, there was a lot of ice on the roads for 2 degrees). This brought me out at Old Felixstowe so I rode down the hill to the end of the Prom. End to end, the prom is 3km so I figured that would probably do the job for me. I checked the garmin at the loos at the end of our road, on the prom and it was over the 31 miles so I thought 'that'll do' and headed up our road and into my gate.
I have a nice hole in my elbow and an 'egg' on it. My hip is swollen and I think bruised. My legs were reddish from the cold so it was hard to see. I bashed my knee a bit too. I don't think I'm getting any guitar practice tonight, my right side took a bit of a battering. Heigh ho, it's the first off I've had for a while. I had to laugh at Strava as I got 2 PBs tonight, both was on my way home, 5 miles from home, after falling off and starting to stiffen up. I am not going to crash my bike to get PBs though, I'd rather be slower and not hurting.
I have had painkillers and hot chocolate. I bashed my stupid wrist too but it was largely protected by the cuffs of my Sealskinz gloves and the cuffs of my jacket. I haven't checked to see if that's damaged yet. My arm is bleeding so I am guessing that it might be. Gloom. I like my Nightvision.
. I`m just a bit concerned about recording it on strava through my phone.... I did a 25km mtb ride last Sunday and it did not/will not sync 
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