Somewhere in USA after IMFL I said to Geoff (my homestay): “its about a week
that I have been in US and I didn’t have seen a single car accident, in Portugal I
can see almost 1 per day”
Well guess what, on Tuesday I went for 60 min bike ride and took only 5 minutes
till I end the spin. I just remember being in the floor screaming with pain and
thinking “I can’t move, I’m all broken out”. I heard lots of people around me
saying “don’t move the ambulance is arriving”. I couldn’t move my left arm
and had a huge pain in my back and but. Later on the day someone told me that
I was hit by a car from the back.
After lots of x-ray the doctor gave me the only good news of the day “you don’t
have anything broken”.
Today I woke up with less pain and I could walk so I went to the police station
with my coach to pick up the bike, helmet and information from the guy that hit
me. Looking for the helmet and bike I had realized that I was so lucky to be in
one piece since everything was wrecked.
I guess I went from the highest high to the lowest low in just one week but hey,
I have to look for the good things… I have iron bones!!! 
Just another sad story from the roads,
Sergio Marques