Kid crashes due to high cross winds into a gravel patched shoulder.

Gets up and finishes the stage, albeit being “time cut”.

Gets on the bus and is limping around. I just think it’s severe road rash until I see him litterally dragging his leg to the fridge and back.

I go up and ask, “Blake how you getting on?
He tells me that his hip is really really bad and it’s worse than usual.
“Yeah, I can see that dude, and tell him to pin me using his blackberry since I’m sitting at the back of the bus hahaha”. Oh technology.

This cat goes to the hospital, finds out his hip is fractured. Shit, man, he pulled the last 20 KM with dudes on his wheel suffering to not make the time cut, and with a fractured hip to boot.

Tough man award: Blake Caldwell