I wrecked my bike last week. Coming around a corner on my way home from work. Less than a block from my house.

The details are as boring as they are stupid. This is the hardest I’ve crashed since my racing days and easily just as bad as anything I did then.

The damage is both knees and both elbows and one hip. Also a tweaked arm and a few scrapes on the chest. The worst was that I took most of the impact with my face and ended up with stitches in my chin and some other scrapes on my face. My chin took so much of the impact that my helmet didn’t have a scratch on it. Tmj pain and sore eardrums too. Also two chipped teeth.

I’ll live.

So here’s where it gets interesting. For the last 6 months or more, I’ve been having terrible
low back pain. To the point where I couldn’t sleep well and it takes me a long time to get moving in the morning. Chiropractic sort of helped temporarily, stretching and strengthening maybe a little bit, but not too much.

Since this wreck, my back has felt much better. I’m more mobile, I’m sleeping better, I’m walking better, and the shooting pains down my legs have gone away.

I’m sure that I cracked my back, forced myself into a range of motion that pain was preventing me from reaching otherwise. I’ll attempt to keep my back mobility up now that it’s moving again.

I’m thinking about starting a business where I randomly push people off their bikes for their health.