i survived the weekend!

i'm still catching up on sleeping, eating and dethawing my body, so a full report is forthcoming. the weekend was wonderful, the race well organized and my teammates & support crew simply kicked ass. we battled rain, sleet, snow and frozen mud. luckily we had no injuries during the race... but leave it to me to get injured after the race. daniel's car wouldn't start, so tony and i helped out with some pushing. well, i somehow didn't have my foot in the right spot and his jeep ran over my heel. i was more shocked at what happened than in pain. what's funny is that there was an ambulance behind us when it happened. i went to see dr. julien (again) and x-rays showed nothing broken. YEAH!! what a close call. another inch and my ankle would likely have been shattered. it looks like i just have a bad bone bruise. i am sporting a very sexy walking aircast for the next week while i hang low. if it's feeling better by the weekend, i can do some road cycling (on the road bike i don't have)... and will hopefully gain clearance to run at next week's checkup. he expects me to be able to do the woodstock 24hr race coming up - fingers crossed!

here's a quick race shot... heading off from TA1....




another pic i grabbed from the brasstown cam. this was taken sunday afternoon - this is pretty much what it looked like later saturday night and sunday morn.