at least it wasn't the knee

I'm still fretting about whether I'll have to skip day 5 of the season today.  It was a lovely day out yesterday, spring-ish, but not gloppy.  Problem was, I took a tumble jamming down the moguls on granite.  My right ski tip dove into a rock, ski stopped short, and I released fine when my foot twisted.  No problem, tumbling, but time to arrest with my left ski still on.  I got around on my back and suddenly my left ski dug in.  Eventually my ski released and I stopped, but, not without a lot of pain around the top of my boot in my calf.

The pain was familiar from last year when I hit a hidden dip in a run and both skis stopped short.  It's pretty intense to start, but this time I remembered that it fades.  After a kind assist from someone who gathered my right ski from ~60' up the slope (I do this a lot for strangers, nice that it came back around), I was back and moving within a few minutes.

But... the pain kept getting worse in my left leg and after a few more runs I skied down to the car mostly on my right foot at 2pm.  Limping significantly yesterday evening with a fair amount of pain, including shivering after trying to stand on it.  This morning, I'm walking better, but there's still pretty real pain around my entire calf where the top of my boot ends.  Doesn't bode well for turning the EHPs the way they want to be turned.

Given that this type of pain on release has happened twice, I'm wondering if for me it's time to get off the Barons inbounds.  My best bet is I tore a bunch of calf muscle on release.  There are a few other reports about release problems on these bindings.  And no, my DIN is not cranked.

My mantra for today: At least it wasn't the knee.