probably was only 30 seconds of being stopped and maybe another minute or two of being slow. but the crash hurt. it was about six miles into the race, and i had worked my way into a group that was fairly fast. that said, there were still a couple riders in the front of the group that were causing some accordion effect at the slower technical sections and then a train of folks like me wanting to get around them. but it was going to take some time, because those riders were pretty fast otherwise.
thanks to the accordion effect, i was watching the riders ahead of me more than exactly 