Quite eventful...
Right overshoe
Left overshoe
Left shoe sole scrapes
Right shoe sole scrapes
Back of right lower calf
I was putting down the power out of the saddle taking off from a
big junction, focussing on the simultaneous pull/push of a proper sprint, when I yanked my right shoe out of the pedal on the upstroke.
The movie of that pro-cyclist who does the same thing and narrowly misses a lampost sprang to mind as my right foot skimmed along the tarmac. I so so nearly managed to save it, but my toe caught on a lump in the road and my leg was dragged backwards into the chainring (hence the calf damage). My balls were being firmly squished on the top tube at this point and the jolt made my left foot came unclipped which left me clinging onto the bars, sitting on the toptube with my feet dragging on either side of the rear wheel 'superman' style. The angle that I was at meant that I couldn't reach the brake levers, so had to simply hang on.
After much grinding and scraping I managed to pilot my stricken steed to the kerb which arrested my forward progress and dumped me in a heap on the pavement.
I was in quite some pain from the chainring bite and from the landing and stayed down and still until I could work out if anything was badly hurt. After beating every other cyclist apart from Emily off the line, a good 8 cyclists had seen events unfold and most of them stopped to see if I was ok which was heartening. There was a mildly amusing convo with a nice lady who came over and said that she was a first aider, I said that I was too and that I thought that I was find, I'd just taken a knock.
No damage to the bike, but those overshoes are gonners and I'm quite impressed with the amount of shoe missing! Somehow my bib-tights haven't got a mark on them despite what my leg shows.
My leg aches now, but no real damage has been done.
Waaaay too much excitement for a commute.