IM CDA 09 Crash Video - I hope there is an explanation

SO have watched this 6 times and still can't believe it. Thew way I read this situation is as such;

• Guy Overtakes (Could be he is getting overtaken on the inside (illegal) but this does not seem to be the case)
  
• Guy Blocks by slowing down immediately to grab something from his jersey pocket.
  
• Guys veers to the inside and body checks other ride

Up to this point it could all be an error and the like, however.

If you just dropped somebody on the asphalt would you not at least stop to check they are ok? I can only awesome in the heat of competition the person though somebody had just ridden into the back of them and it was completely their fault.

I would still hope I would stop in this circumstance at least to check if that rider was ok. Still in shock from having viewed this 10 times.

Birthday Plans for 2010 - Solidiifed

Trying to decide a race schedule 12 months out when your A race is still 2 months away is tough. How I do at IMC will not only decide the following six weeks it will also give feedback to if my race schedule for 2009 worked.

However I have decided I may do a slightly different schedule in 2010 and when I saw the date of Ironman Coure'd'Alene some decisions were made. The race date is June 27th which happens to be my 30th birthday so I will be celebrating this milestone with a day of racing :)

Like any birhtday there is a chance I could throw up, pass out and generally feel like garbage the next day but that is the risk I take. Growing up I never would have guessed I would spend a birthday in Idaho but it will now happen.

Starting to think of my lead in schedule and would definetely like to do Wildflower so may road trip to this one and hopefully suck a couple other people into a post olympics trip. Any race where everybody else is camping and sleeping in cars puts me at a competitive advantage. Lot of hard work to do in 2009 but are also exicted about some of the potential for 2010.

This sport rocks and there is definetely a lot of different options to keep the racing fresh