Still Sore

I'm still recovering from a pretty good crash on the SMBRide. I'll try to describe the incident for ya...it was a pretty chilly morning Saturday so I get all my gear together, get half dressed and load up the Jeep to get to the meeting place trying to leave myself a couple of minutes cause I don't want to be the one that holds up the group. Make it there w/ a little time to spare, good size group for such a cold day. If I had to guess I'd say about 20 riders all bundled up.
We get moving and it's about a 10 minute ride to the entrance of the trails we hit. For some reason I'm super pumped this day and was feeling great...dressed properly and the exercise during the week is making me feel strong and healthy. As we are about to descend into the single track trail I take my position at 4th going in following the really fast and at the start of main pack. So we're flying through the woods and all is great. Come to the section of the trail that is all tree roots, big frozen slippery roots that act as speed bumps. My bike is pure rigid...no suspension. Make it past the first section of roots and come up to the seconds. I'm getting bucked up and down when finally I feel my back tire heading for the sky...we're going super fast and my ass end is shooting up. I knew instantly that this was NOT GOOD. Well faster than you can say "ahhh shit", I'm flying through the air like I hit the eject button on a fighter jet. Everything is a blur. Then smack -"UGH" . Woah. I get up, pick my bike up and get off the trail faster than you can say "Rider Down" cause I know that there is about 15 bikers coming down the trail really fast. As they're going by they ask "nate, you ok?" "ya thanks", I reply. The whole group pasts...I spin the bars to untangle the cables, jump back on and start the chase. Immediately I can fell something. "That'll leave a mark" I say to myself.
What happened was I landed right on top of a 6" high frozen tree root on my left side love handle which made my body bend an unusual way.
I have a stupid cough that won't go away and it hurts every time I cough or laugh. So the whole group makes it to the beach. I'm trying to stretch it out but it's not working. I can feel every little bump. As we were on our normal way to Cedar Grove a rider was having trouble shifting (the severe cold can make the bike do weird things) and a couple other guys weren't into doing the full route so cut off early straight to Oostburg for bfast. I pain was getting worse in my side. The four of us got to the restaurant about 30 minutes ahead of the group and I decided to call Larry for a ride home since I was really starting to fell the crash.
Then it snow like crazy later that night.
Sunday had me pulling the snowblower out. Fired right up. Made two complete passes, was throwing like a champ...then it literally blew up. The engine case blew apart. Snow blower is now junk or scrap. WHY MEEE!!! But as I walked away I knew that this type of shit always happens either the first blizzard or with really heavy wet shit like that crap we just got hit with. Reminds me of the time we had a blizzard a couple of years ago and I was driving down Lakeshore drive and saw a very angry guy toss his little snow blower like a shot put - he was not a happy camper -well neither was I seeing that I bought this used last year and only used it about a dozen times. Oh well. So I swallowed a bunch of Ibuprofen and got the shovels out. It actually turned into a good sweat - I had to find somthing positive about the whole thing.
Afterwards I made a big batch of chilly and called it a day. Trying my best to rest and recover.
Tonight it's workout 2 or just cardio depending on the side...it's so tender that it unpleasent to even walk today.