Almost hit an animal ah? Let's see. About 4 months ago, I was doing my morning ride. It was around 4 AM and I see this gigantic bird fly off a mailbox on the same side of the street that I was approaching. It makes a quick turn in mid air and aims for my head trying to rip my helmet off. I guess once it realized I was not a giant rat with lights and carbon fiber it decided to let go. It was an Awl. About a week ago, I riding down the same road, and I see this huge Possum (had to be at least 15 Lb) on the other side of the road. He turns his head, sees me, and decides to go clear back across the street. I was doing about 23-24 MPH at the time. He was walking across and I had no time to turn or do anything, so I grabbed the handlebars as hard as I could and tried to lift the front end a bit. It was too late. As I screamed F..........k, calculated in microseconds how much that fall would cost me in repairs to the bike and work time, and ran small scenarios of how I would land on my face, I could feel my front and rear wheels go right over it. I think I must have run over its neck because otherwise I would have crashed. I did not even look back, but the next day I looked around the same area to see if it was dead and on the side of the road. Nowhere to be found!

I could go on for a while on other near crashes with skunks, a fox, multiple rabbits, a bob cat, and those huge rats with aluminum siding you guys call armadillos. I'll leave it at that for now.