The day was setting up to be perfect for the Shelton Enduro (Family fun riding at its best!). I had already decided the long course was a no-go and Scott and I wanted to ride the same minute. The course was nearly perfect and 50 miles long. We stayed pretty close to our minute the whole day (Thank you ICO!) until I wound up on my ass 2 miles from the last check (7).
A small, innocent looking, mud hole was smuggling a root. When I hit it at somewhere between 30-40mph, it sent my bike sideways into the air. I hit the ground and nearly recovered (Thank you Scott’s Performance and Pro Race Suspension!). But I was pointed in the wrong direction and wound up swiping the chain link fence which bordered the trail next to the airport.
The fence straightened me out in a hurry, but it also sucked my tire into the link. Once the tire hit, it locked and send my rear tire into the air. One or two full rotations (I don’t remember which) and the bike and I fell to the ground in a skidding stop. I knew the foot was messed up right away (Broken in multiple places).
Being as how I was on my minute, I was eager (read that as: The adrenaline kicked in) to not loose any time. Scott helped get the bike on its feet and I proceeded to get to my foot. We rode the last 2 miles as fast as I could (Made up 2 minutes!) riding the Shelton whoops with only one foot on the pegs! Yeah!
Now, here I sit with this stupid little bronze medal and a foot that’s rapidly swelling into one serious cankle (Ref Family Guy and Bill Clinton). I gotta go to work now!


The above are frames from my CT scan (Think of them as Oscar Meyer balogna-like slices through my foot) showing a few of the nastier tid-bits. The medical jargon from the CT analysis follows:

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TECHNIQUE: Thin section images were obtained through the area of interest in the left foot with sagittal and coronal reformations performed.

FINDINGS: There is a sagittal hairline fracture through the lateral navicular with comminution at its dorsal and plantar margins with multiple tiny comminuted fracture fragments off its dorsal aspect and widening of the fracture line to 1 mm at its plantar lateral aspect. This fracture line reaches both the articular surface of the talonavicular joint and tarsonavicular joint. The plantar margin of this navicular fracture adjoins a small area of comminuted fracture of the dorsal lateral distal calcaneal margin, seen on axial images 35 to 44. There is a small adjoining area of comminution of the proximal dorsal lateral margin of the cuboid.

There is a small hairline oblique fracture through the plantar margin of the base of the first metatarsal, best seen on sagittal images 13 through 15. There is a hairline intra-articular oblique fracture through the base of the second metatarsal, best seen on sagittal images 22-25. There is a comminuted fracture through the medial plantar margin of the base of the third metatarsal with an 11 mm x 7 mm x 4 mm and smaller fragments slightly medially displaced, best seen on axial images 38-45 and coronal images 31-37.

No dislocation of the tarsals is seen at Lisfranc's joint.

IMPRESSION:

1. Multiple tarsal fractures, most of which are hairline, and including intra-articular fractures of the navicular and second metatarsal base.
2. Beauty job on the foot.
3. Sucks to be you.

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Ok... Yes. I added those last two..

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Mr. “NWB” 42 (Non-weight bearing):
The ultimate in style!