At tampa airport typing from crackberry.
Great swim. First out and felt smooth and strong.
Solid bike hanging in 2nd/3rd for 18miles (matty and andy).
Got called for failure to stager....uh....where? I'm a million miles behind? Do a stop and go, am cranking on the bars to get back up to speed with my head down. Look up right before plowing into the back of the ref motor bike stopped in the road (I should have looked but he should have not stopped in the middle of a thin two lane road).
Rolling in immense pain. Never have hurt that bad even with broken bones. Lots of blood on my suit (luckily teflon coated so was able to clean it off and save it). Med crew arrives. Treated rather abruptly then left to fend for myself. Ice arm and chill with dude who's yard I was in. HTFU/BAMF-it after seeing CAF athletes out there and ride one armed back to T-area.
Get back. See med staff. Send me to hospital. Get stiches and tetanus shot. Baaaadly bruised. Lots of pain but others have had to deal with worse. Doc (former french pro, said he raced paris-roubaix) says I shouldn't look so good..."You are very very very lucky." (Thanks big dude :)
Sprint to hotel, clean up, pack bike one handed, drop off car, catch blue van, get to airport.
Flight in an hour. Going home to the mountains.
Life.is.good
Give thanks everyday for that.
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Damn dude - what a week. Fitness looks gooooood though. Lookin forward to seeing you back on the horse
Did they wire your jaw? let me know if you need some liquid recipes. Hope you got the swim prime and i hope USAT covers all the hospital bills since you got hurt in a race. That should be covered under your license insurance... lauren
what a bad-luck-week totally! :(
But your attitude rocks!
Sorry to hear it Mark... I am sure the first few days will be tough but you'll bounce back. Sometimes 'life' has to slow us down a bit; as much as we don't want it.... hang in there and be patient.
Kelly
Keep your head up kid ;-)
Here's wishing your recovery is speedy and painless!!
WTF?! So sorry to hear it. Hope you have a quick recovery. If things really do happen in 3s, I think it's safe to say you've got that all taken care of.
Rough luck, Mark. Chalk it up, be glad it's only April, I guess. Glad you're not hurt more seriously, you'll have a great season anyways.
Dude... I said CRUSH it. C-R-U-S-H. Not crash!
Heal up quick, your coach gives a max of 1 day off after something like that and then it's back to HTFU!
OUCH!! I hope you can get back to training soon!! Keep us posted!
glad you are "ok", Mark. get well quickly, you and your bike!
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