![]() Before long I was carried by the patrolman into the back of an ambulance, and whisked away to the hospital.Īll because of a flatten dead crow in the road. He was amazing and attentive, grabbing his first aid supplies to clean the road rash on my knee and shoulder, and doing a quick neuro exam. A WY Highway Patrolman rushed over and picked me up and carried me over the guardrail and laid me under the overpass. I remember trying to stand and the pain being severe enough that I couldn’t and I grabbed for one of the other racers that was already back on his feet. ![]() I just remember the sensation of my head slamming into the ground, and the instant pain in my left calf muscle. People told me I screamed, but I really don’t remember. At the speeds we were traveling I had less than a second to react, and with no place to go, my only option was to follow the laws of physics, and launch off my bike (which had hit a bike in the road) and fly head first into the asphalt. ![]() For four years I have lived in fear of the day I would crash on the road in a serious manner, so when I heard the brakes and clanking of alloy and carbon and human bodies in front of me my heart sank. It’s probably the most sickening noise and sensation I have ever heard/felt… the sound of my head slamming into the asphalt at 29.1mph. ![]()
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