Update on Cycling

It has been a while since I have updated my blog. Here is what happened three months ago.

I did very well on the first race of the season, it was a 10 mile time trial. I pulled out a first place finish and won by three .03 seconds! That gave me first place overall going into the next stage of the series.

The second race of the series was the March 30th Slammer Road Race. The race organizer combined some fields since the field sizes were smaller. There were about 60 or so at the start. I had 2 teammates but they were in the B group. I was by myself in the A group for our team. On the second lap about 1/2 way through the race I was at the front and another rider came to the front and went right in front of my front wheel taking me down. We were doing 29 mph and I crashed out the worst I have ever had. I ended up being rushed off to St. Lukes where they transferred me to St. Al's because they thought that I was going to need an operation to remove my spleen. I was in ICU where I discovered that I had broken my collar bone, my scapula (shoulder), three ribs, and deflated my lung. All on the side I hit the ground with, my left side. I was in the hospital for 6 days and two weeks later I had surgery to place a titanium plate to connect my collar bone back together. My spleen was to be OK.

It has been three long months off of the bike and race season is over for me this year. I really would have liked to see just how well I would have competed against these guys in the 1,2,3's (A group) being from California. I guess I will have to wait till next year to see how I do here in Idaho.