Bright red and bruised, Mia Gaytan’s entire right side now shows off all that she thinks is wrong with what’s going on on some Folsom trails.

“I shouted out to him because I knew. He looked at me but just kept going,” Gaytan, 16, told FOX40.

“We were gonna T-bone so I swerved off and I landed in the ditch,” she said.

Doctors say her right shoulder has a possible fracture.

The peace and freedom Gaytan, an avid mountain biker, usually finds riding around Lake Natoma bottomed out in that ditch as well.

The trail has been a conflict zone between runners and cyclists.

Folsom firefighter Eric Williams is still battling back from major head trauma after a cyclist hit him from behind during a January jog.

His blog boasts his practice at walking from early last month.

Gaytan feels there is an even bigger problem developing on the trail between mountain bikers like her, and those on the kind of road bike that forced her off the road.

“I definitely think a lot of cyclists need an attitude adjustment because I feel like they think that they’re going for the Olympics or something and this is their training ground. I definitely don’t feel like it’s a family oriented place,” Gaytan said.

“There’s a lot of traffic out there now in the last seven years. I’ve seen it increase twice as much, if not more,” Folsom cyclist Ken Ruth said.

Ruth rides around Lake Natoma six days a week and has had run-ins with other bikers and pedestrians.

“Some people walked right in front of me so I hit the brakes and stood, basically stood it up, and slammed into the bridge. Almost went over it,” he recalled.

So how do folks out to enjoy a good time avoid hurting each other?

“I think everybody needs to be courteous, number one. Everybody needs to be educated how to use the trail. I think the county needs to put some signs up showing the rules,” Ruth said. “They have some written on the pavement but they don’t have a sign and advertisement of the importance of this.”

County park rules stipulate that both riders and pedestrians in groups need to stay in a single file line in order to share the trails safely.

Both Gaytan and Ruth say that’s a big problem because people want to be side by side to talk.

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