Sea Otter Crasher...

Sea Otter was this weekend and Saturday, even thgough I had to leave early was a blast. Me, Rosalind, Matthias, Jason and Deanna hung out together. We stopped by the Velobella booth and the girls purchased the 2006 VB jerseys. Sweet!!! Matthias and Ali did the road race and unfortunately Matthias got a flat. Although he finished the race he wasnt sure what he placed. Sea Otter Classic has apparently really screwed up the race results and everyones complaining. They either put racer results in the wrong catagory or just didnt put then on any catagory. Thats gotta suck for those who did well.

Sunday came around and me, jason and rosalind were scheduled to race. Jason took off at 8:00a.m, he placed 66 out of 72 racers(sport catagory), not bad. Rosalind hmmm..... I dont remember what she placed. Rosalind raced beginners since this was only her second race. I didnt place anything becaus......

Unfortunatly, Julie my teammate and I got into an accident at the beginning of the race. This year the first 1/4 or 1/2 mile of the race started on the pavement. We just left and made the first left turn, then up a little hill, wow!!! we've already lost about 1/2 of the group. Were in the front of the pack, sweet!!!! I dont want to go into details but on the descent of the hill I got sandwiched in between to riders, one being my teammate and down we both went. It was horrible. I hit the pavement on my ass and slid down finally landing on my left side. I immediately turned around and BAM!!! went Julies face on the pavement. She was out for a second. All of a sudden I see her trying to lift her face off the pavement. I looked in horror as she peels her lips off the pavement. It was so disturbing the only thing I could think to do is to tell her to stay still. I couldnt get up! What, I've been in my fair share of accident and have always gotten up, bloody and all. I knew I had to be hurt pretty bad. I just remember telling Julie to stay still, I knew the girls we dropped would be coming any second and I was right. Thank God for Tracy who rides for Specialized. She stopped to help and junked the race. She's an EMT so he was just the person we needed. The only thing I could remember after that was to try and get Julie some help. Not much time later, I see Rosalind's group riding by. I dont think she realized how her face looked. She looked shocked to see two Velo Bellas down but she had to keep riding. We'll Julie was sent off in the ambulance. At the time I thought I was feelinging fine but just moments later at the VeloBella tenant I started to feel the pain. Paramedics came by and drove me, Nikki(my duaghter) and Casey (our pooch) to our car so Nikki could take me to the hospital. We'll we got to the hospital but there was a 4 hour wait. I could do it so we drove home, I took some Advil and Tylenol and tried to sleep. It was so hard knowing that Julie was in the hospital and I didnt know what her status was. I went to my family practice dr. and had some x-rays done. He think I may have either broke or buised my tailbone. I'll have to wait and see.
More tomorrow.