Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share an event that happened in the hope of helping someone else in the future. I decided to ride the 53 mile Truxton route the club was to make on Sunday. I wanted to finish early to chase life's needs. I set out on my own at 8am up Apulia road like I have so many times. My last memory of the ride was approaching the RR tracks at Jamesville Beach. I know I was aware of the wet conditions and was thinking of the need to be careful. 

My Garmin sent out an Event Notification that I had an event at that location. I have zero memory of anything related to my incident. My next point of awareness was at some point while riding realizing there was damage to the hoods on my brake handles. Next was arriving home. I found myself to have a sore left temple and shoulder. Abrasions on my forearm, knee, calve and ankle. My helmet and clothes are all damaged from the fall.

I ended up in the ER for 9 hours. I had a CT, Arterial Scan, Coronary Scan and bloodwork to rule out those as my cause of accident. I have no recollection of what happened. In fact I rode over 11 miles after the event. 5 miles to Eager Rd and pulled a U-turn home for another 6 miles. My moving time is 6.5 minutes less than the ride time. 

The doctors agreed I had some type of Concussive induced amnesia. It is chilling to think I continued to ride for nearly an hour in a compromised cognitive state. 

At this point I think I slipped on the tracks and crashed. We can't rule out completely my having been hit by car or passing out. It just seems less likely. I was well rested, well fed and well conditioned.

Be careful out there. We love to ride but there is always something serious waiting to happen.

James Horan

Jamesville NY