05 October 2009

Car Crash While Running the Gauntlet


This started out good the knee was feeling a little rough at first. However, it had little to no effect on my running.

I set out for a run around town, a run my friend Gallagher calls the "gauntlet." Hwy 51 to Hwy B then to Hwy N and so on.

Well, I was heading East on Hwy B coming up on Country Club RD. A vehicle heading East was turning left onto Country Club, when the driver of a truck heading East swerved hard to the South opposite of me, as I was running into traffic; the truck hit a sign giving me a good heads up, he then stuffed his truck between a utility pole and guy wire he managed to hit very hard snapping the guy wire and clipping that pole hard. I don't think he ever saw it coming and was easily up to Hwy speed!

I was only about 20 seconds away at my running pace. Thinking the worse and running trauma situations through my head, I was surprised the guy was fine. He climbed out of the passengers side after the drivers side wouldn't open. This was as I was running up on the back of the vehicle. I asked him if he was the only one in the vehicle; he was. He was coherent yet understandably confused, thinking he actually hit the vehicle that was attempting to make a left hand turn, but quickly figured out what was going on.

So I figured him to be OK; as my GPS was still tracking me and I was heading into the 8mm range. I had to get running and fast. When I saw a friend of mine who is a police officer pull up I was gone.

Continued mission and cranked my time back down to the high 7mm range. Nevertheless, by the time I hit Hwy N I stopped and talked to another friend for a minute. So my average pace is about 6 minutes off. This run should be an average of 7:55mm's.

I should've just snapped a quick pic after all, a pictures worth a thousand words. It would've saved me a lot of writing!

I stopped and took a picture this morning; how he went between the pole and guy wire, I have no idea? Look at the tire tracks you couldn't do that twice in a row!


Always, run into traffic,
Chris



Activity
Route:
--
Elev. Avg:
882 ft
Location:
Stoughton, WI
Elev. Gain:
+0 ft
Date:
10/05/09
Up/Downhill:
[+452/-452]
Time:
4:55 PM
Difficulty:
3.2 / 5.0

Weather:
Mostly Cloudy

55 F temp; 59% humidity

55 F heat index; winds Vrbl 6
Performance
Distance:
11.46 miles

Time:
1:37:03
Speed:
7.1 mph

Pace:
8' 28 /mi

Calories:
1614


Elevation (ft)

Pace (min/mile)

Splits
Mile
Pace (min/mile)
Speed (mph)
Elevation
Gain
actual
+/- avg
actual
+/- avg
1
8' 23
-0' 05
7.2
+0.1
+3 ft
2
8' 05
-0' 23
7.4
+0.3
+29 ft
3
8' 37
+0' 09
7.0
-0.1
+30 ft
4
10' 25
+1' 57
5.8
-1.3
-16 ft
5
7' 46
-0' 42
7.7
+0.6
-36 ft
6
7' 45
-0' 43
7.7
+0.6
-26 ft
7
9' 12
+0' 44
6.5
-0.6
-3 ft
8
8' 17
-0' 11
7.2
+0.2
+43 ft
9
8' 09
-0' 19
7.4
+0.3
-50 ft
10
8' 41
+0' 13
6.9
-0.2
+49 ft
11
7' 53
-0' 35
7.6
+0.5
-23 ft
end
8' 05
-0' 23
7.4
+0.3
0 ft
Versus average of 8' 28 min/mile

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