Today Sam crashed his bike.
First of all, he was in a bike race. (I personally didn’t even know that he was in a bike race, but apparently he was.) When I came home from taking my physical science test at the testing center, Sam and Myrtle were at home and Sam was showering. That was when Myrtle told me that Sam crashed his bike. The even more heart-wrenching part––especially for Sam––was that he was in the breakout group of three right at the front with only a mile left until the finish––about to win the whole race––when he looked behind himself, bumped tires with the guy in front of him and crashed. Lately Sam’s racing luck has been been pretty bad. For example, a couple of races ago, right near the finish when he was also in the lead, got a flat tire. Then when he was chosen to participate in the LOTOJA bike race (which only accepts the participants in a random drawing), he smacked his knee on his bike just the wrong way that he couldn’t ride his bike for months and had to miss the race. I mean, what?!
Thankfully, this last race didn’t cause too much damage. He has road rash all over the right side of his body, but nothing is broken and his bike only has a few minor scrapes. Thankfully he will have a short recovery and will be able to continue to race in a few weeks, which he is stoked about.
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