SOBs Info Notes
This Thursday’s rides (Sept. 1) leaves from Ohkay Owingeh casino’s parking lot at 9:00 am. A carpool will meet at Fort Marcy’s parking lot off Murales Rd. at 7:45 leaving around 8:00. If you don’t know the way to Ohkay Owingeh you could follow the carpool.
Herb reported that the club has reached the minimum orders from Voler for the jersey (both long and short sleeve) and the new short design.
The Silver City Event is on September 12 - 16. Presently we have these people signed up:
Edwin and wife (who is a non rider)
LynnJudy
Clare
Lisl
Karen
Lynn Pickard will be coordinating the trip, you can contact her if you are planning on doing this event and your name is not on this list. You need to make your own hotel reservations for the Silver City trip.
The information is at: http://blog.santafesobs.com/2011/07/19/sobs-info-notes.aspxOnce you have made your reservations, please send an e-mail to Lynn at lynnpickard1@yahoo.com
and tell her where you are staying, how many will be in your party, and what days you have reserved.
A group planning meeting will be held next week to finalize things.
She's reserved for a Monday arrival and Friday departure, with a late check-out request. According to Google maps, the mileage to Silver City is 297 and it takes about 5 1/2 hours to get there.
We are tentatively planning the club photo for Thursday, Sept. 8. The ride is scheduled to leave from Frank Ortiz Park at 9:00 and we’ll take the picture around 8:45. Tom McLaughlin has a wide angle lens and has agreed to do the picture.
If you are interested in doing an off road ride with the club meet at Java Joes at DeVargas mall next Tuesday, Sept. 6th at 8:30 with your bike. We will ride the short distance from JJ's to the park entrance for this non technical route. Tom McLaughlin will be “the man” for this event.
Roy Cope sent me this account of his ordeal:
After sixty-eight days my nightmare is slowly coming to an end, sixty-eight days ago I developed a blood clot in my right leg which initiated a sequence of events that puts me where I am today, in recovery but still not back to where I was before first day of summer, the 21’st of June.
On the evening of June 21 while race walking with the local running club, I developed a blood clot in my right leg. 6:00 am the following morning I was in emergency surgery at St. Vincent’s hospital.
In the process of emergency surgery to address the blood clot, an aneurysm was discovered that I was totally unaware that I had. It is my understanding that this was the source of the blood clot. In a second surgery a couple of days later a abdominal stint graft was implanted.
In an odd sort of way, the blood clot was a fortunate thing. I consider myself fortunate in that a life threatening aneurysm was revealed, I did not lose my leg, and that I am still alive.
Twenty-one days in Christi's St. Vincent and forty-eight days in recovery at home puts me where I am today, the Wound Vac is gone, the wounds are healing, the swelling is going down and I am walking on my own.
I have started riding again, but after two months of inactivity, I am out of shape and my rides are short and slow. I am gradually building up my endurance, when I feel that I am in good enough condition to keep up with the group, I will return.
I hope to return by the middle of September.
Posted by Ian at 8/31/2011 11:03 AM 
Categories: Cycling, rides, Santa Fe, SOB's, New Mexico, Recent News
Categories: Cycling, rides, Santa Fe, SOB's, New Mexico, Recent News
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