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psycholist
Mar 27, 08 12:04
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Why I pray before I ride
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You're gonna wonder what I've been smokin' when you read this, but this
honestly happened to me today. I was in total disbelief. I say a prayer as
I begin each ride and today the Lord watched over me for sure.
Regulars here know I live in a remote, rural area. I did a tough 3-hour ride
including about 15 excursions down to the Lake
Russell shoreline -- each involving a fast descent, then a turnaround at the
bottom and a climb back out of the basin. On one of my descents I heard a
crashing noise in the forest to the left of me and from my 9 O'clock came
about a half dozen large deer on the dead run. This was something I've
always feared. On a century ride a few years ago, I watched a
deer charge out of the woods and run square into the side of a moving
vehicle. It killed the deer and, by the sound of the impact, I assumed
it did major damage to the van. I've thought many times how bad it would be
for that to happen on the bike. And here it finally was. I braced for
impact 'cuz I knew it was certainly coming and it was going to be horrible.
(I probably screamed like a little girl. I know I said some words that
the Lord wouldn't approve of.) I vividly recall eye contact with a buck at
about 5 feet away just ahead of my left shoulder. I winced. But just
before my eyes completely closed and at the moment of impact, there they
were ... hooves ... up above my forehead. And another set. I felt them
gently rustle the back of my jersey. They jumped me. I was probably going
28 mph or so. They were probably doing the same. And they jumped me.
I almost crashed because I HADN'T been hit when I expected to be and nearly
missed a turn in the road. I can't describe the feeling. One moment I was
experience the same dreaded feeling I had when a teenage driver turned
directly into me and I saw it coming and knew I was going to be seriously
hurt. The next minute, the realization that I had been spared.
Exhilaration!
Whoa ... what a rush! DANG! Praise the LORD! If I were a cat, that was
one less life right there. I thought I was toast and I was truly in the
middle of nowhere. I might have laid there until the vultures picked me
clean before anyone would have happened onto me. I'm sure there was no cell
service. But instead, I finished out my ride strong on a huge surge of
adrenaline.
I was jumped by a freakin' herd of deer!
I know it sounds nuts, but it's true. I just had to share.
Bob C.
“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” –Margaret Thatcher
Meowelk
Mar 27, 08 12:08
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I can't believe you kept your seat after that. Yowza!
immyfish
Mar 27, 08 12:14
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If that's true - awesome - just awesome... Hell, even if it isn't true.... just awesome...
TOTRI
Mar 27, 08 12:20
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WOW, what else can be said!!
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Dr. Bearmilk
Mar 27, 08 12:21
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Dude, that's amazing. People don't realize that deer can actually jump up to 8-9 feet. Some specific types can do more. At that speed they could probably clear you with a good jump. What's the most amazing though is that they jumped you coming at a 90 degree angle with you going 28mph. Wow...any street security cams to verify? Probably not in the boonies...
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show pony
Mar 27, 08 12:22
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you know the rules son...pics or...
blood, sweat...and big gears
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
- Muhammad Ali
chuk
Mar 27, 08 12:24
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What did you "actually" drink before getting on your CT ?
Just kidding... Try the national lottery.
devashish_paul
Mar 27, 08 12:24
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...pics or it did not happen...
Just kidding...first of all, glad that you are safe...secondly, watching wildlife in action is amazing...watching them in action hurdling your back at 28 mph...well, I can't say what that is like, but we are all glad that you are safe!
thanks for sharing.
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chainpin
Mar 27, 08 12:25
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Stop BS'n everyone please!!!! You know you do this shit for sport, in fact, you were caught on film plucking a leaping deer out the air just recently.
You sick bastard!
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Mar 27, 08 12:34
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Oh man I totally know what you mean. One time I got a flat 2 MILES from my house. I mean, what am I gonna do? My patches were all gone, the glue was dried up anyhow. I sat looking up at the sky, and then the clouds did that thing where the sun shoots down into beams of glorious light. One seemed to lead right into my pack. I looked again, and there it was- a spare tube sitting under my multi-tool. Had it fallen from heaven? Had my eyes been miraculously opened? I still don't know. All I know is that it changed my life. That was when I knew I had been given a second chance. I became a Benedictine monk serving the less fortunate in under-developed lands. I pray that you take this opportunity and use it to reach out and change the world.
chuk
Mar 27, 08 12:35
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That's true. My grandparents found a fawn in the forest who had been left by her mother (probably touched by humans). It was a female fawn, they tamed her, and she really was as tamed as a dog. But, when she got adult, the civil services asked my grandparents to build a 8 feet high fence round their homestead to keep the hind or else, as she was considered as a wild animal, she should have been given to a zoo. So they did. And one day, hence always kept inside the fence, the hind got pregnant. So that's right, deers can jump 8 feet...
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FatherKevin
Mar 27, 08 12:36
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So, just curious, but you think God stepped in and saved you from a bunch of deer but he won't step in and save the 4,000 kids that have died in Iraq?
I don't know, maybe you just got lucky...
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show pony
Mar 27, 08 12:38
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dude, really...
blood, sweat...and big gears
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
- Muhammad Ali
chainpin
Mar 27, 08 12:40
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So, just curious, but you think God stepped in and saved you from a bunch of deer but he won't step in and save the 4,000 kids that have died in Iraq?
I don't know, maybe you just got lucky...
Bring it to the LR...knucklenutz
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SwBkRn44
Mar 27, 08 12:42
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Wow!
Awesome, glad to hear you're ok.
Which bike were you on? :-)
OWEN_MEANY
Mar 27, 08 12:45
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so...did you shi* your shorts? lol.
That's an amazing story. I had a buck jump out of the cornfields and cross my path once, and that freaked me out. but i wasn't going anywhere near 28 mph and it didnt jump OVER me. Were you wearing a HRM? It must have been going 300.
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Mar 27, 08 12:48
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WHAT a story/experience!!! i have to work this into a sermon soon.
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Mar 27, 08 12:54
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You should probably pay closer attention to the signs in that area.
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BLACKSHEEP
Mar 27, 08 12:59
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The lord was probably trying to have you killed. Just happened to chose a deer with an independent mind.
psycholist
Mar 27, 08 13:05
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The lord was probably trying to have you killed. Just happened to chose a deer with an independent mind.
LMAO!
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Bob C.
“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” –Margaret Thatcher
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Mar 27, 08 13:11
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I had a similar experience once, without the jumping. Rural area, riding downhill towards a lake, wondering how bad it would suck if a herd of deer suddenly ran out in front of me. I look up and sure enough there's a herd a deer coming towards me. I braked hard (without flipping the bike) and the deer ran in front, behind, and all around me. I found a different bike route the next day.
Glad to know you're safe.
Go out and spend another 10k on your stupid super aero tri bikes so I can pass you on the bike course.- hybrid5228
psycholist
Mar 27, 08 13:19
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I was on the road bike. Down in the drops. I'm so short and I get so low on the bike, I guess jumpin' me was no big deal to them. It was a big deal to me, though.
As to whether or not I ruined my bike shorts, it all happened too fast. I went from terror to relief to adrenaline rush in the span of about one second. I'm too old for my bodily functions to work that fast without pharmaceutical assistance.
One thing I've learned from living and riding out here in the boonies is that you can count on wildlife and farm animals to do something completely different from what you'd expect. Startle a herd of deer and it comes right at you. Startle a herd of goats grazing along a roadside ditch and they'll make for home, even if what startled them is between them and home. Startle a flock of chickens pecking in the middle of a quiet road and they'll fly right up in your face. Statle a herd of wild boar and you better pray you've got a really good sprint. Vultures can sometime be poor judges of speed and you CAN hit them. Snake ribs can go clean through a road bike tire.
And as God is my witness, turkeys CAN fly (with a nod to my hero, Les Nessman).
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Bob C.
“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” –Margaret Thatcher
mr. mike
Mar 27, 08 13:19
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I have a friend who had a bad crash last year when a flock of wild turkeys spooked across the road all around him on a steep descent. glad you came through unscathed.
cerveloguy
Mar 27, 08 13:26
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A moose ran between a group ride I was on one time. I didn't actually see it as it was behind me and some others. We thought the other riders were pulling our legs.
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Mar 27, 08 13:29
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Love the Les Nessman refrence...wonder how many will get it.
Glad you are well. I would of been off the road even if the deer did clear me.
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