Yikes
(photo credits: Mark Suprenant... ie soups... ie Team Type 1 racer... ie RAAM finisher -2nd place... ie all around great guy)
Heal up there Sponge-bob-stick-legs
Looks like you weren't the only one to get a touch bloody this weekend:
(photo pulled from here via here
8 comments:
yeah, but Nys was smart enough to stop when he got hurt.
stupidity and stubborness doesn't equal true toughness.
bt
well Nys also had a bunch of stitches...
how many did you get?
Do you know what happened to him? I was cheering for him, but trying to figure out if he'd hit a tree or what. There was blood everywhere! -KT
from Legolord's page:
"Somehow he got caught up on a set of barriers at today's race and took a rear wheel directly to the end of his nose. Sounds funny if you weren't looking at the photo. The wheel hit him so hard on the end of the nose that it ripped a 2cm long gash up on the bridge of his nose. There was copious amounts of blood. He's an eye doctor.. or optometrist... or something like that, and he was pretty sure that he had fractured the bone just below his right eye next to his schnazoots. "
and in eyebob's words, aka sponge bob sticklegs:
"no stitches,
broken nose and ethmoid bone
should self-heal"
i was on his wheel, well, one rider back from his wheel, when he went down, of course. If an NHCC guy goes down, dollars for donuts I am on his wheel when it happens...its getting spooky.
He slid out on the gravel between the horse pens and the grassy turns before the track. Lost the front wheel and rolled on his face. Its possible a wheel hit him, but I saw him spread out and slide on his face and head and then tumble. I slowed and asked if he was ok and he said yah and sounded like he meant it.
I was SHOCKED to see him when he rolled in (just behind me) 4 laps later. Dude, get the EFF off already.
But I think he just smashed his face really hard on the ground. That is how it looked from where I was sitting.
Teach him to pass me without saying anything as he went by.
jerry --
you're assuming he only crashed once.
that is true. I think these NHCC'ers have Wednesday night cyclo cross crashing practices. They may have perfected it.
Ok, that was uncalled for.
Hope you and Carl are both OK, Bob!
J
Jeez, what hecklin' I get when I don't bother to read the follow up posts.
FTR, I broke my nose, hence the blood. My first crash was spectacular, after passing G-ride. The second crash was alone, trying to bridge up, on the field barriers. Ugly.
That's all.
bt
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