it's a great Fri night ...and a bummer night, at Hellyer

Last Friday, we trucked down to Hellyer (the velodrome...see previous posts for details) for the first Friday night fiesta in quite some time. It started out great...several match sprint heats, a senior scratch race ....it was like summiting a nice climb....but then it turned ugly. 

In the first women's ride, a 30 lap scratch, there was a fairly low speed accident involving 4 riders. One got up, but the other three stayed down for some time. Not sure how it happened, but it really doesn't matter. What does matter is the three, albeit with some broken bones for each, are not very seriously hurt. Sure, broken bones are not trivial, but I was really concerned things were much more serious. From what I hear, everyone will be OK after a bit of healing.

..so our heart and thoughts out to the gals who are recovering..and to the ones who love them who were right there, TCB.