Car Crash While Running the Gauntlet

This started out good the knee was feeling a little rough at first. However, it had little to no effect on my running. I set out for a run around town, a run my friend Gallagher calls the "gauntlet." Hwy 51 to Hwy B then to Hwy N and so on. Well, I was heading East on Hwy B coming up on Country Club RD. A vehicle heading East was turning left onto Country Club, when the driver of a truck heading East swerved hard to the South opposite of me, as I was running into traffic; the truck hit a sign giving me a good heads up, he then stuffed his truck between a utility pole and guy wire he managed to hit very hard snapping the guy wire and clipping that pole hard. I don't think he ever saw it coming and was easily up to Hwy speed! I was only about 20 seconds away at my running pace. Thinking the worse and running trauma situations through my head, I was surprised the guy was fine. He climbed out of the passengers side after the drivers side wouldn't open. This was as I was running up on the back of the vehicle. I asked him if he was the only one in the vehicle; he was. He was coherent yet understandably confused, thinking he actually hit the vehicle that was attempting to make a left hand turn, but quickly figured out what was going on. So I figured him to be OK; as my GPS was still tracking me and I was heading into the 8mm range. I had to get running and fast. When I saw a friend of mine who is a police officer pull up I was gone. Continued mission and cranked my time back down to the high 7mm range. Nevertheless, by the time I hit Hwy N I stopped and talked to another friend for a minute. So my average pace is about 6 minutes off. This run should be an average of 7:55mm's. I should've just snapped a quick pic after all, a pictures worth a thousand words. It would've saved me a lot of writing! I stopped and took a picture this morning; how he went between the pole and guy wire, I have no idea? Look at the tire tracks you couldn't do that twice in a row! Always, run into traffic, Chris Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 882 ft Location: Stoughton, WI Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 10/05/09 Up/Downhill: [+452/-452] Time: 4:55 PM Difficulty: 3.2 / 5.0 Weather: Mostly Cloudy 55 F temp; 59% humidity 55 F heat index; winds Vrbl 6 Performance Distance: 11.46 miles Time: 1:37:03 Speed: 7.1 mph Pace: 8' 28 /mi Calories: 1614 Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 8' 23 -0' 05 7.2 +0.1 +3 ft 2 8' 05 -0' 23 7.4 +0.3 +29 ft 3 8' 37 +0' 09 7.0 -0.1 +30 ft 4 10' 25 +1' 57 5.8 -1.3 -16 ft 5 7' 46 -0' 42 7.7 +0.6 -36 ft 6 7' 45 -0' 43 7.7 +0.6 -26 ft 7 9' 12 +0' 44 6.5 -0.6 -3 ft 8 8' 17 -0' 11 7.2 +0.2 +43 ft 9 8' 09 -0' 19 7.4 +0.3 -50 ft 10 8' 41 +0' 13 6.9 -0.2 +49 ft 11 7' 53 -0' 35 7.6 +0.5 -23 ft end 8' 05 -0' 23 7.4 +0.3 0 ft Versus average of 8' 28 min/mile

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