so i raced bikes this past sunday up at. ontario. just a standard flat, 4-corner, 90 minute crit in the hot summer sun. nothing special, except that it was pretty much the first crit i've done since i crashed really badly last year and broke my jaw. sure, i jumped right back on the track bike after i healed up last year, but i didn't do any road racing - it just wasn't in the plan for that time of the year. anyway, did the race and you know there was a crash, and you know it happened just about 4 bike lengths right in front of me, and you know i had to lock up my brakes and avoid people sprawled out on the pavement and bikes flying everywhere. just ridiculous - it was like a 7 or 8 guy pile-up. no one was seriously injured - just road rash - but man was i freaked out. when you're racing bikes, that fear section is just a part of the brain that you have to switch off because you can't ride scared - that just makes it worse.

so a teammate of mine actually had a helmet cam on during the race, and he got a tiny bit of the crash (before it became a pile-up) on video. most of the vid is somewhat boring - just look at the last 1 minute - that's where the crash occurs...

on the plus side of the race, my teammates dana and daggs got 9th and 11th and so we took home some cash - enough to pay for the gas for the car ride to the race - awesome...