JB's Adventure Blog: The Latest... From Erin

It's a busy time of year for Jeremiah. Unfortunately for web-junkies, when the most excitement is going on, there seems to be the least amount of time for him to blog about it. So, I am going to take some editorial privileges to keep this blog rolling.

The latest racing action took JB to Mt Snow, Vermont for the NORBA National Mountain Bike Series finals where he was favored by many of the pro cross country racers to take the win in the main event. Even though we are within a day's drive from Mt Snow, on Thursday JB caught a plane from Dulles to Albany so he could get ahead on next week's trip to World Championships in Italy by flying directly out of Albany after the NORBA. On Friday JB was pre-riding the course with our buddy Nick Waite when things took a turn for the not-so-good.

The short version of the story is that Jeremiah was bombing down a descent and wound up flying over the bars and smack into a tree, taking the blow directly to his back while in mid-air. He had to be walked off the mountain - thanks David! - and was worried that he may have bruised a kidney or his spleen (isn't that in the front?). He was pretty sore and unsure of his participation in the cross country race the next afternoon.

On Saturday, he must have felt up to it because he started... and finished the cross country race, "just for fun".

On Sunday, JB's rational side got the better of him and he went to a physician's office and had some x-rays taken. After his visit he told me he had in fact broken "some ribs" and that explains the pain he was having. But the story, even though it added up, just didn't seem right and my women's intuition kicked in. "I'm not getting the whole story am I?" I questioned and I wondered if by some chance the infamous crit could have had something to do with his trip to the doc. "You didn't get crazy and hurt yourself again last night did you?" But, he convinced me that there was little craziness, the team dinner actually lasted until after the naked crit was over and that he was genuinely concerned with his back. "Zap might even write in his column about how I raced the cross country with a broken back!" he exclaimed.

AH HA! Right I was. The truth revealed. Those "ribs" he broke are actually part of his vertebrae and his run in with the tree was worse than he initially told me. JB is going to be alright, thankfully we can treat it very much like a broken rib. He is going to skip World's and head back to home for some rest and recovery. Nationals will be up to the doctor, not the happiest way to wrap up the summer, but alive and relatively-well is pretty good if you ask me!

Thanks for reading!
Erin

posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 8:17 PM

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