Finally!

Okay, I got some of the crash photos up.

Look if you dare….

That is the only position I was able to sleep in for the next 48 hours…

You think that’s bad? You should see the kid’s wheels my back tore up

Im drugged up on morphine in case it was hard to tell 😉 Pudding cups are good too! Look my dad, he has the Captain in him…

That’s all…

David

Riding outdoors

Today I did my last (knock on wood) ride on the trainer for awhile. I did 1.5hrs, then did the last climb of the tour today in zone 3. But tomorrow I will be outside riding. It wont be long before I return now…

Update and a fellow blogger

I rode the trainer for a little over an hour watching the time-trial. Legs felt pretty good actually. Tomorrow I will go for longer and may be outdoors! The Tour is certainly interesting. I hope Vino destroys all! Hopefully Evans will kick the Chicken off the top spot. Anyway my boy AJ Meyer is off in Europe tearing it up (hopefully not himself like I recently did but the competition) Here is his blog I am sure he will enjoy your support.

http://www.andrewjosephmeyer.blogspot.com/

David

Getting back into it

Today I spun around on the trainer for 45 minutes following the Tour. I felt a bit stiff but I guess that is expected 😉 Tomorrow I will iincrease the time a bit and see how I feel. Sunday I will be cleared to ride outdoors as it will be over a week since my crash. So may be I will ride outside if everything goes according to plan. I will keep you updated. Here are some photos, none of them are of my crash. I will post those later…

Look at Phinney…

Thanks Dad! Sorry I couldnt get the result 😉

I want to thank everybody for their support especially my mom and dad who have taken care of me this week (not to mention the past 17 years).

David

Im home

I am back in Chatt-town after my wreck. It was terrible. It looked like a bomb went off in the field. I remember the crash vividly. I was sitting about 3rd wheel at the front down the descent when a rider came flying past us on a sweeper he over shot it bounced off into the gravel then back into the road on the right hand side. I was easing the brakes at 45mph and moving over to the left. The other riders had no idea what had happened and they shot around me and a couple locked bars and went down right in front of me on the right. I moved over to the left and just as I was passing the mayhem when a rider hits me from behind I go straight down and immediatley. I could tell my day was over. The worst road rash for sure for me. I have a tire mark all the from my lower back up to my neck, a tire mark across my right though, and road rash from my feet (my shoe came off in the wreck) up to my ear. But considering it could have been a lot worse I am grateful. 2 had broken femurs, 7 broken collar-bones, 24 total admitted to the hospital. 4 were overnighted including me. I had to stay overnight because of my concusssion. No chances after what happened with Saul. Good thing though is I got to eat all the pudding cups and jello I wanted 🙂

I will upload some pics later. I am now gonna take some pain killers then go to bed. Thank you again for your support. It truly means a lot! I am healing up fast and I will be back!
David

Getting ready…

Hello all,

Currently I am getting prepped for nationals (13 & 14). Then the next day (15th) I grab my things and board a plane to Canada. Yes my friends…Canada. I make a connection in Tronto then to Montreal then take a beater plane (the ones that are smaller than a chewing gum box) to Val D’Or Airport then drive to the race venue for…drumroll please…Tour de l’Abitibi for a week long stage race. 200 riders…tons of national teams, regional teams from all Canadain proveinces, USA National Team, Polish team, Belgian, Japanese, South Africa, US regional teams: Midwest, Inner Mountain, Southeast, Northeast, West Coast, and may be some others that I dont know about. The team I will be racing for is the US National Team with Carter Jones, Grant Van Horn, Danny Summerhill, Taylor Phinney, and Ben King. A-bit-a-bee is a world cup stage race so that means a couple of things: 1. we send our best squad to collect points so we can send more riders to the world championships 2. more riders = more crashes = more fun 3. more money? – not that part matters anyway because all cyclists make the big bucks.

Nationals looks like a good course for myself too. The TT is 20km long on a rolling course. Nobody can preview it by bike so I am sure we will be one of the 100 riders previewing it in our rental cars (may be we can have a bumper car race later? – ofcourse if you got the crash insurance covered). The road race is a little less hilly…bad news for a lightweight like me but it climbs back up to the finish so hopefully I can play my cards right.

Training is going very well. I seem to be recovered from Ohio and already I am putting out some of the best numbers I have seen so hopefully that trend will continue. I would upload some photos of my crash and from Ohio but I cant because my camera is in Minnesota with my mom and sister…I think. (if your reading this plz send it back). Until next time…

David