My lower right leg got hit real good. You’d think I’d learn about wearing my pads all the time.
Andre
Oooouch! hate those, I have enough shin scars from bike riding, you’ll never catch me riding padless… 
“You’d think I’d learn”
One would hope so.
It took a broken patella for me to learn to always wear protection 
I’m losing a year of riding because of it.
Well, I always prefer to learn from the mistake of others…so thanks for the lesson!
Yeah I always wear pads for anything even moderately challenging.
I learned that early on. Riding along hit a crack in the sidewalk, fell back and landed on my but, bruising my tailbone. I couldn’t sit comfortably for 6 mo.