Thank you to my fellow teammates and racers for making sure I was OK yesterday.  After I slid out in front of the entire women's field only a half mile into yesterday's cyclocross race in Greene, just about everyone stopped to make sure I was OK.  Especially concerned were fellow Mission in Motion teammates, but I guess seeing me get T-boned by Liz Carrington (I'm sorry for crashing you out Liz!) caused them some concern.  Kim Celecki, Tamara Lewis and Michelle Costello all stopped and then restarted after I yelled that I was OK.  I could not persuade Marsha Kapinus or Liz to go on, though, and they both made sure that all my limbs were functioning.  The three of us limped back to the start line. 

 

Race official Dawn Fox was kind enough to put Marsha and Liz back into the race one lap down.  I got to watch the rest of the race, which was cool.  Everyone in the women's field took the time to ask if I was OK as they went through the S/F area, with Karla Eische making double sure that race officials knew about the accident before she saw me standing there.  What an impressively compassionate group of competitors.

 

The race was great to watch, especially with the twists and turns that abounded in the field before the S/F area.  The women all turned their turbo chargers on and were out there working really hard, even though their start -- and the order that they restarted -- had gotten completely messed up.  As both a coach and a competitor I was so very impressed.

 

As for me, I have one heck of a backache today, and will see my chiropractor this afternoon.  And my brains remain a bit scrambled.  I am hoping that my appointment this morning with Mackay Rippey, my acupuncturist, will help with that and with my back.  I'm not sure if I will be racing at the Dave Panella Memorial on Sunday, but if not I will still be there to cheer everyone on and to help out.

 

Again, everyone, thanks for putting your own races on the back seat yesterday and coming to my aid.  Thanks too to Karl for promoting a super race and getting me (and many others!) into this silly sport.  And if I missed thanking someone, I do apologize.  I'll just blame it on my scrambled brains.

 

Ride on!