What a difference a year makes!

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  Last year this time I was laying in Lancaster General Hospital in Intensive care with a broken back (T-12)and 8 brand new titanium screws and 2 new titanium pins. My recovery went really well, had to wear a brace for 3 months and then a month of rehab then back to work I went on Aug. 30. At that point I was trying to ride the bike as much as possible so I could be ready to get back out and ride with the team come this spring. well riding the bike turned into Mt. biking and running and look at me now, just finish the Hyner a couple weeks ago and have been doing alot of trail running getting ready for another 10k trail run at Hyner in July. All I can say is Thanks everyone for your prayers and I thank the Lord for his watch care over me and healing power. 

Just a little mud!



  OK now for the weekend activities Adam, Brian and myself decided to hit the trails at Canoe Creek on Saturday, the weather was just beautiful and the mud was great. The trails were a blast with some good climbs and some technical descents and a trip around the lake we did 5.7 miles and would have stayed and done more but I had to get home to get ready for work. I thought about calling off and we could have done a few more miles and then picked up the mt. bikes and gone for a ride. I always hate going to work 2nd shift when the weather is soooo nice! oh well we have to eat! We decided we didn't get enough on sat. so we decided to get up early today and do it all again, so we did. At 6:30am Brian and I met at my place Adam 6:45am (fashionably late) and we headed to canoe creek again. The sky was looking like rain but that's just part of the great outdoors and rain always makes the experience that much more interesting. (like Hyner) We started our run and I was feeling pretty good so I started to push the pace to try get some good tempo work  and it was going good till my phone rang and I'm thinking why is the wife calling. Well it wasn't the wife it was Brian I never told him what trail we were running and we were in front of him so he wasn't sure then I told him to go another trail to try and meet us but I was confused and Brian was confused so Adam and I finally figured where he was going and after awhile we caught up to Brian. All in a days trail run (found a really good climb in the process) so it all worked out good. Guess what? it started to rain I know its hard to believe but it wouldn't be a trail run without rain, so we finished up the 6 mile run in the rain. What a great way to start the day!! Get out and check out the trails at Canoe Creek they're pretty good! Just do it!



Adam showing off the mud!



Brian finishing his run!