My wife and I completed the MSC yesterday and I got to tell you was I disappointed with their so called (we are looking out for your safety) bulls**t.
Like everyweek in CT. it was suppose to 85 and sunny on Sat. all week until 11:00 on Friday night and then they announce the arrival of the monsoons.
We rode all day in the rain, not to bad the course for the most part is pretty easy, gentle sweeps, straight line stopping and plenty of time to setup for the task at hand.
They had this figure eight box which everyone did pretty well earlier in the day when it was just drizzling, now this is for the cert. and I mean it is pouring the first guy has to put his foot down (failed), the next guy goes outside the box (failed), the bikes were just slipping all over the place. Then my wife goes she gets about two thirds through it and the front wheel slides out and she takes a low side fall the bike lands on her knee, so at this point they decide to cancel the exercise and give everyone a pass.
At first I thought just her pride was hurt, but could tell there was something else going on. She was a trooper and toughed it through the next two hours and passed the course.
We get in the car and she takes off her rain suit and her knee is swollen and has a nice strawberry on her kneecap.
We tried ice last night, but that did not help much and I had to take her to the ER this morning right now it looks like she just twisted her knee, but is scheduled for an MRI tomorrow as they think she may have torn her cartilage in her knee.
To boot the guy running the course is a DMV Safety Inspector. I know it was my wife so I'm going to be a little more teed off, but come on now we were like lemmings jumping off the cliff.
She was so excited because we were going for ride today and she was looking forward to riding her new bike. Looks that is going to have to wait awhile.
Thanks for letting me vent !!
