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@KieranYo
Decided to take a slight detour from my usual commute, from Kew Gardens towards Hammersmith bridge so nipped down to the path behind the Budweiser brewery if you know it.
I got a bit carried away and got some good speed up, pretty stupid considering I have road tyres on my bike and I wasn't familiar with that route.
I eventually came to a part in the path with cobbled stones, covered in fresh mud from the recently high tide of the Thames, needless to say the grip on my front wheel disappeared.
..I landed all on the left side of my body, most of the fall was on my elbow but I have a bruised upper leg and a sore ankle (I was wearing SPD's too). I managed to wind myself too and cover most of the left side of my body with mud, I got up and continued along the rest of my commute (to Tower Hill) slightly embarrassed. When I got into the office and grabbed a shower I was a little bit grossed out by how much my elbow had swollen up:
Went to the hospital and got an x-ray just in case because the pain and swelling was getting worse. Nothing broken though. They called it a traumatic haemo bursa? Had a compression bandage on it since and it's gone down a lot since.