Today’s Highlights:
I took an easy ride early this Sunday morning when it was cool and quite, with very little traffic. I stayed close to home to simply do a little hill training. Near the end of my ride, I escaped instant death by about one second. I was crossing an intersection, when a truck coming from the opposite direction started a left-hand turn onto the adjoining street and was heading at me for a head-on crash. He was going very fast, because he was traveling down a hill (that I was climbing) and his turn was more like a bare-left rather than a 90-degree intersection. I had to alter course away from him and crank hard to escape to the side of the road. He flew by right behind my rear wheel.
I was on my second pass up this hill climb. The GPS route captured on the picture below shows my normal route (#1) across the intersection and my escape route (#2). The cars path is approximately the yellow line.
I have been trying to take it easy these two weeks before the big ride. I was reminded today that even a simple ride close to home requires attention to safety.
Pictures Of The Day:
Statistics: Zoom and pan the map to explore the route.
Time: 8/26/2012, 3:50:1 |
Duration: 46:38 |
Ascent/Descent:  815 ft  848 ft | Distance: 10.43 M |