An embarrassing series of crashes today:
I've only recently started getting into mountain biking and after having a great day on Wednesday I headed out again today.
Things weren't feeling as good but I was getting along ok on a mix of fire trails and single track. I then spied a track that I didn't think I'd ridden before and thought I'd explore that one...
Not far along I clipped a tree with my right handlebar and crashed into a tree on the left side of the track, managing to rip the seat out of my shorts in the process. As I sat there in my torn shorts I thought "that could happen to anyone, best push on"
50m further down the track I clipped a tree with my left handlbar and veered off the right side of the track, there wasn't a tree on that side to break my fall so I ended up a few metres down the bank but still upright. Ok I thought, I really need to focus on what I'm doing here
100m further along I glanced up to see my face heading straight for a massive spiderweb draped across the track, it was too late to avoid it and after getting a face full of web I instintively took a hand off the bars to brush it away... the next moment my front wheel tucked under me and I was going over the bars and hitting the ground hard with my shoulder and head. That one hurt! I lay there dazed for a few moments trying to work out how I'd managed to crash like that
A headache was setting in and I decided to admit defeat and head home. I was having a nice run along the fire trails and it seemed a waste that after climbing all the way to the top to take the fire trails all the way down when I knew there was a nice bit of single track I could use...I decided to take the single track and just walk the couple of difficult obstacles to avoid any further mishaps
I got to the first obstacle, unclipped one foot and stopped to decide what to do. That decision was taken out of my hands as I over balanced with one foot still clipped in and fell down the bank beside the obstacle....this was getting ridiculous!
I then decided I was really heading straight home. After riding along for a minute trying to clip in I stopped to find out what the problem was

Oh! that's not good, I wonder where the cleat went?
Not my finest day...