Thursday, August 26, 2010

Pain....

30mph along the long flat road in Crescent City. I was looking good. I'm pretty sure I was in either 1st or second place in the crescent city triathlon. We were speeding by everyone on the side of the roads and up a hill a mile after. At the top of the hill was a neighborhood with a lot of turns but I was being pretty stupid that day so I stayed at about 30mph by the houses. Less than a mile to the transition area to run a 5k. Turn 1, I slowed down a little, went by okay. Turn 2, pretty good. After the turn I speed up a little more because I thought it was a while until the next turn... but it wasn't. I see a woman point to the right and I was going way too fast to make the turn... I turned anyway and slammed on the back brake of the bike making me skid toward the curb. I let go of the brake and hit the curb making me fly off the bike. I don't really remember HOW I fell off, over the handlebars, or off the side, but i know I hit my head on the side of a brick wall on the sidewalk. I tried to get up but fell down when I did. the woman came to me and told me to stay on the ground but i said i was going to finish the race. she said "I don't think you want to do that" and I looked down at my body (I wasn't wearing a shirt, I was showing off my tats) and I was bleeding a LOT. Then another woman came over and she was hOttt. So I decided to stay. They called the paramedics over because I was bleeding on my head too and they didn't know what to do. The hospital people did there tests to see if I was paralyzed... I wasn't. then my dad came and they did a lot of paperwork and we went back to the start line. I learned that day that going around 30mph around a 90 degree turn on a bike isn't a good idea...

1 comment:

  1. This is one of your best writing so far. A few things to revise. Use capital "I"! Put more emotions into it. How did you feel? What did the hot girl look like? This is a great moment, so give the reader more, more, more!

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