This morning’s bike ride was a mixed bag, from me safely riding around the mall’s parking lot to watching one of our own being transported to the county hospital for observation.
Everything this morning started out the way it usually does on these weekday bike rides, with me slowly cruising around the mall’s parking lot patiently waiting for my cycling comrades to gather at our meet-up place on the east side of the large shopping mall.
There wasn't much route diversion when cycling to the coffee shop other than five out of eight of us, me included, taking the longer route via Griffin Road and then crossing I-75 via the Post Road Bridge. We then traveled northward on Weston Road towards the coffee/bagel shop.
Oh, I set a new PR on my Strava Post Road Bridge segment. Whoopee!
After our coffee break, and on the way back to our original meet-up place, the same five of us took an entirely different route than the other three bikers. We took the longer northern route and they took the same route as they took when riding to the coffee shop. How boring is that!?
While riding back to the meet-up place, instead of crossing I-75 by way of St. Rd. 84, which is close to being suicidal for walkers and bikers, all five of us took the safer route through Markham County Park. The park has a wide concrete trail that runs all the way from Weston Road to Flamingo Road and beyond. Flamingo Road is where we would ordinarily turn southward anyway. The park’s concrete trail bypasses all road construction and all morning traffic heading into Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Anyway, we hadn't been on this relatively-new park trail for one minute when suddenly Sandy and Ron somehow became tangled up with one another, resulting in both of them hitting the road fairly hard at roughly 16 mph.
Other than a sore hip and a scraped elbow, Sandy is okay. Unfortunately, though, it was necessary for Ron to the transported to the county hospital via a county ambulance.
When Ron couldn't tell the paramedic what day of the week it was, or why he was lying on the concrete pathway, the fire rescue folks determined that it was absolutely necessary to take him to the hospital. We agreed!
As soon as I find out Ron’s condition, I’ll re-post.
Just received a hospital report. Ron is okay! Great news!!!!!
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