Interesting Afternoon

Today was a very interesting and fun afternoon. One of our AB's decided that he would ride the spare hand cycle on the final leg of our trip. That led to several of us AB's (yes, including me) taking a turn around the parking lot on them. Well, naturally with a bunch of athletic people, it led to a race. When they took off, Mark still had his brake on so he went nowhere. Tina was off to a pretty good lead, and Mark finally got going and he had the hammer down. Greg, one of the handcyclist was right beside me. As soon as Mark took off, Greg said "he's going to wipe out in turn four." Sure enough, Mark comes flying around the las turn in the parking lot on two wheels. To his credit, he had made up the entire gap from the start during the quarter mile lap. Unfortunately, he had not heard how easy it was to turn one ofthe hand cycles over. Over he went and as fast as he was going, he slid about twenty feet. No major damage, just a little road rash on his legs and arms.

My three laps on the hand cycle certainly gave me a new respect for the hand cyclists. Don't think that I could even come close to making it sixty miles on one of those. These guys are incredible. I noticed Dr. Bill has a superman symbol on the back of his seat. Quite appropriate for these guys. They may have some physical disability, but there is nothing keeping them down!