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Old 12-06-10 | 02:21 PM
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From: Medina, OH

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Glad your OK after the fall.

I had a fairly clean crash record other than the usual slow speed crashes in cyclo cross and on the mtb until this year. In the spring I was riding with a local club in a pace when the lead rider went over a pothole and I followed and got two flats in an instant. I could not control the bike and slid off the side of the road onto grass and gravel. Just a dust up in that one.

In August in the State Master's Road Race Championship a rider took my front wheel out causing me and several others to crash just 3 miles from the finish line. Riders from behind rode right into my hip, back and even my head. That crash hurt in more ways than one. I lost winning the race for my age group and limped in finishing 3rd, my bike took a wallop, and I had road rash on my hip, elbow, wrist, knee and knuckles. It took a long time for the road rash on my knee to heal as I kept breaking it back open in cyclo cross race crashes.

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