It is NOT "all good" until your punishment is deemed complete!
I sure don't miss goatheads. Those things were the bane of my desert-rat childhood. Not so much for biking reasons but because they'd punch through a calloused bare foot like a thumb tack and hurt for a month afterwards! I had many a hole poked in me in the desert- everything is thorny- but goatheads stand out as the nastiest.