Sunday, January 23, 2011

Another newspaper writer falls off her bike

My wife and I both signed up for the Pan Mass Challenge a week ago. We'll be riding 192 miles from central Massachusetts to Provincetown on Cape Cod the first weekend in August. This will be the fourteenth year of riding for me -and the PMC is one of the highlights of my summer.  Training rides are one of the highlights of my spring.

Bella English, a Boston Globe columnist , has a frightening article in today's Globe magazine.  In September, she fractured her skull (despite her helmet) and had a pretty serious head injury which has left her on medical disability and with some residual cognitive deficits.

Scary stuff.

The snow is piled high now.  I hope her article will recede from my mind when the snow melts and the spandex calls.