For some that don't know me, I use to do Triathlons in the early 80's and 90's.  I was never going to win any, but I trained for them like I was going to.

Depending on the distance of the next race, I would train all three aspects of that particular tri event.

If it were an Ultra or Ironman distance I would log a tremendous amount of mileage.  But we didn't know any better back then.

I'd swim up to 7 miles a week, Bike well over 400 miles and Run in the 70 mile range.

This fast twitch muscle fiber fella was down to a whopping 8-9% body fat at 150 pounds.  My VO2 was right around 61 ml and a resting heart-rate of 44.

Now I'm not telling you this because I'm about to embark on that training and condition level nor do I want you to.  I'm telling you this because with all that mileage logged, I spent a lot of time by myself on the roads, ocean, lakes and pools.   In doing so, I have a lot of "altercation" stories.  Like me v fish.  Me v. dog.  Me v. automobile/trucks.

Now I can take an occasional shark (Matt Goodwin hates sharks) but those cars and trucks???  I can't remember if I have been hit 7 or 8 times but ahhh...I digress.

Regardless, today on the way home I found myself once again on my back in the middle of an intersection still clipped to the pedals.

The light had turned green and I started to proceed straight through on my bike commute home, when the other guy (in a car) went to afterburner and ran the red making a left turn in front of me.

Luckily, I had waited for the green and gave it an extra second otherwise I wouldn't be writing this.

So I hit the brakes hard and was unable to pull out of the clips so I ate the pavement.

Total damage???  Left elbow scraped and bloody, left knee scraped no blood.  Right ankle??  Now that looks like it went through a cheese grater.  LOTS of Blood.  Bike?  Nah...I saved that shit. No damage.

Sense of humor???  Still in tact.  As I laid in the intersection the fella waiting for me to move asked, "Hey, you alright?"  To which I responded, "Yep...but I'm not sure if I used up all my nine lives yet".

I sure hope I didn't.  Otherwise I'm going to have to start driving back and forth.

It all happened so darn fast too.

Today's Training:

AirDyne: 22 mins

Prehab/Re hab

Main Lift: Dead Lifts

20x1

Single Arm Single Leg Reach: 5x5

Bike Commute and accident: 55 minutes  bwahahahahahaha