I have been riding a lot of miles this month for the Group Health Commuter Challenge. Once again it looks like my team, Squadra Ophidian, may take the category of most miles commuted by a team. You can watch us go head to head with a Microsoft Team called “Micro Spokes”. We feel that we have a good chance to beat them this year. last year it was a team from REI. This year the REI team is at position 14.
So today is Bike to Work Day. As I was coming through Fort Dent Park there was a rider about 800 yards ahead of me. It was a pleasant spring morning, then I hear a C-R-A-C-K! My very first thought was a gunshot, I look around and I see the same cyclist on the ground not moving. Visions of Virgina Tech went through my mind as I hit the grass in a prone position and looked around. I noticed the rider moved slightly, got bike on my bike and raced over to help. Turns out the crack that I heard was his headset snapping at the stem. Imagine going 15-17mph and suddenly having the handle bard gone out from underneath you. He had gone head over heels on to the pavement. But not before the stem had poked him in his abdomen. No broken bones, no broken skin. He knew his name (Dave), and yes, he was wearing a helmet!
i was able to get Dave a ride to his work place with the help of Carol in my office.
The Headline says it all! This is one lucky SOB!
Seattle man survives after truck runs over his head | KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington | News
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Floyd Landis claims the U.S. Anti-Doping Agencys lead attorney approached his lawyer offering “the shortest suspension theyd ever given an athlete” if Landis provided information that implicated Lance Armstrong for doping.
Got my opportunity to be the center of a lot of stares and slack jawed people. Went to lunch with the rest of the office for Cinco DeMayo. Usually it’s me driving the gang in the Van, but today I was the passenger in the Phil and Linda Teller’s Art Car “Godspeed“. That’s Linda my co-worker in the photo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pet food manufacturer Menu Foods expanded its recall Wednesday because of possible cross-contamination between melamine-tainted products and other foods made in the same period.
SAPA news agency said the attackers, dressed in suits, hijacked a man in his 50s and forced him at gunpoint to take them to his home in Johannesburg.
“The victim was then forced to strip, after which he was superglued to the seat of an exercise bicycle, his hands were superglued, as were his feet and then his mouth was superglued shut,” SAPA quoted Mark Stokoe, a spokesman for emergency services Netcare 911, as saying.
Awesome goodness happy time!
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