Looks like I’m headed in to get an MRI on the knee next week. The cortisone injection from two weeks ago has pretty much worn off, not that it worked too well to begin with. Rode for about 15 mins today and the knee was pretty bad. Pity, the trails are so nice right now, nevermind how nice the road riding probably is. Anyway…

Got the new Mountain Bike today in a packet of mags from Rodale and it had the crazy image I took at Tenney Mountain last fall. The image isn;t that nutty, but the story behind it is. It was of Ben Hewitt, a good writer and fellow northern New Englander. The assignment was to get him doing his first downhill race. It was a two-run format and I opted to shoot him with the 6×7 and a fisheye for the first run, kinda risky shot as the camera is manual everything so I’d only get one shot, but I figured it might work, and then strobes w/digi on the second run. So I waited in the woods for his second run, strobes all set and everything, and he never came down. Went down to the parking lot to see what was up and his car was gone. Just then my cell rang and it was Ben. “Uh, Chris, I’m on my way to the hospital, I think I broke some ribs.” I guess he stacked it really hard just a couple hundred meters after he passed me on the first run. So I came back from the day with one frame of him riding, and they actually ended up using it. You just never know.