Ouch!

NBC News Correspondent Stephanie Gosk decided to take up cycling during the pandemic and all was well until a recent ride.

She wrote on the Today website that “after a cold and snowy winter, I was thrilled to get back out there this spring. I signed up for my first ride in March, 65 miles over the bridge with about 50 riders.”

“Overly eager that morning, I took off with the lead group. I had no business riding with them. By the time we hit eight miles, I was getting dropped. It was in that moment, tearing down a hill, looking at the riders up ahead and not paying attention to the road, that I hit it — a pothole grabbed the front wheel and threw the bike, with me on it, down hard. I slid along the pavement. My head hit and my face dragged.”

It was a nasty fall, but Gosk adds, “The injuries looked gruesome but what’s most important is what didn’t happen to me. I didn’t break any bones. I didn’t lose any teeth. I didn’t get a concussion. That’s the big one. The helmet did its job.”

She is urging people to take bike safety seriously.

Or, maybe take up another hobby, we might add.