Update -Bike wreck

We just landed in Cebu, Philippines for the week and once we got checked into our room we opened up the computer and started checking out the past two months of blogs that we've been missing.  This week we plan to get caught up on reading other blogs and doing some posting of our own.  Some friends of ours booked a week in Cebu and since I had some meetings in Cebu and Manilla we decided to all come down and join them for the week.  Will was great on the flights and we are looking forward to some warm weather swimming, but not exactly looking forward to sharing a room with Will for the week...Jen is getting his bed set up right now on the hide-a-bed so we'll see how this goes.

The most notable event from this past week was my bike wreck.  On Tuesday and Thursday mornings I get together with a group of guys and we do laps around Century park at 5:40am.  It's a 5k loop and we usually do 6 laps with a sprint finish to each lap.  Kind of like speed workout on a bike.  The once per lap sprint finishes can get a bit intense when you've got 12 guys fighting for the win each lap.  On Thursday's 3rd lap the bunch sprint got a little bit too tight and the two guys on my left started getting tangled up a little bit and in a split second they went down right into me!  I went flying in one direction and my front made a load exploding sound as my bike went flying in another direction.  Once I hit the pavement I rolled for some time.  We were doing about 35mph at the time of the crash!  The crash hurt pretty bad and was pretty scary.  My bike was not ridable so I took a taxi home.  Throughout the day Thursday I got more and more sore and felt like I'd been hit by a train.  But amazingly I woke up feeling pretty good on Friday morning and went for a slow 1,000 yard swim.  I took my bike in to get repaired and the only real damage was my front wheel, I'll have to get a new one, in the meantime I've got a loaner from a friend.

It was pretty miraculous that I wasn't really hurt.  Since it is still winter time I was wearing a lot of clothes so I didn't even get road rash.  Had it been in the summer I wouldn't have much skin left.  My helmet didn't even have a scratch on it and by Saturday morning I was ready for another 100k ride.  Today, Sunday, I've just got a slightly scratched knee and a tender, slightly swollen, elbow but that's it!  I'm really grateful it turned out OK. (I figure it's mostly due to drinking Asea, it's a miracle healer. 2 oz a day will keep any doctor away.  I even put it on my bike to keep it from getting hurt.  Now I just need 10 people to work under me to sell this stuff)  High speed bike crashes in big groups are scary, especially since the guys behind you have no choice but to run you over!  I certainly don't want to repeat that experience anytime soon.

We'll be posting more this week with pictures.