The attack of the pot holes.

Unbelievable, I am averaging a bike wreck a year now, and I don't like those odds. All in all I was very lucky but what a pisser. I was riding with a group of about 7 and we were on a pretty lousy road. The best that I can remember is reaching up to down shift with my right hand while my left was still on my handle bars. I hit a small pot hole and my handle bars turned to the left and I could not recover and down I went. I scrapped my shoulder, elbow, butt, and knee along my left side. The good news is their is minimal damage to the bike, I rode home, and no broken bones.

The unfortunate thing of it all is Dan Banse was behind me and went over my bike then flew over his handle bars. I hate to think about my responsibility of his accident, I feel terrible for his accident. Luckily he is okay, I am not sure about his bike though, but he rode home as well. Again we were both lucky.

Be careful and keep moving, we may have scrapes, bruises, sprains and breaks but we sure are having fun along the way.

White Rock Half

David L McCullough M3539 406 58/341 334/2075 1:42:13 7:49

Well, I did it again, I had a PR for the Half this Sunday by about 1 minute. This run was really tough and I pushed harder than any other race. The great thing is I sustained the high effort for the full 13 miles with a HR average of 172. In retrospect I probably should have started out easy and build but I had that demon in the back of mind prompting to me do better than the Half in November. I had a side stich for the majority of this race as well, I definately was not true to my form and biomechanics, it felt kind a sloppy.

For the record I am very happy about this perfromance and am only reflecting on those things that I can approve upon. The Houston marathon is looming large and I am very excited about doing this race. I have one long run of 20 miles left in 2 weeks and then I begin my tapper. I wonder what the weather will be like, I guess it does not matter, that is uncontrollabe.

See yah

Good Day

It was a good day. I ran 20 miles today and felt better than I did on my 18 mile run, so the nedurance is starting to kick in. Even more importantly the Cowboys won in dramatic fashion, unbelievable.