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| Maritza and I snagged seats on one of the two buses filled with 180 cyclists to Apanaca!!! |
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| Sleep deprived & Super pumped for the ride while drinking excessively sugared Sweet Tea |
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| my sweet Hardrock rental |
After waking up at 4:30 AM to get to the bus by 5 AM for breakfast and bike loading, we rode the bus for 2 solid hours to arrive in Apanaca around 8 AM.
We were both super stoked to get riding down the cattle roads. Around 4 miles /6.25 km into the 40 km ride the crash happened. I will preface to say Maritza is doing well now and I was not hurt.
Maritza ended up passing me while flying fearlessly down the hill and a short bit after that she crashed hard on the dusty steep dirt road. From the cloud of dust scene I came upon, I can only speculate that she hit her front brake, flipped over her handle bars, throwing her to the left side of the road while her bike was tossed to the right.
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| Riders and a part of the trail that Maritzia & I never saw.... photo courtesy of Bike Center FB album |
What ensued was a ton of concerned cyclists and a ride in the back of a pick up truck followed by a ride in the back of box truck to a local public hospital where Maritzia got cleaned up, 4 stitches on her face, and her skull x-rayed. We then loaded back into box truck and drove another hour back to a special brain diagnostic hospital in San Salvador. The diagnosis was whiplash and a minor concussion.
She has been resting up all this week and is already talking about our next bicycle adventure... this time with a little less dust and trails that she knows.
Talk about one kickass lady!
The countryside view from the back of a box truck
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| Box Truck ride back to San Salvador with Maritza, her x-rays & fellow Salvadorean cyclist Carla |
The countryside view from the back of a box truck
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