If you are a cycling fan, ESPN.com may not be the first site you visit when you are looking for great cycling content, but recently I have been impressed by some of the columns from ESPN’s Bonnie DeSimone. She has written some excellent stories on Floyd Landis, and now a great piece on Saul Raisin.
Slow is not Saul Raisin’s preferred speed right now. He thinks of himself as a professional cyclist, a potentially great one. He doesn’t remember the crash that almost killed him in spring of 2006. He never saw himself the way his mother and father saw him, rigid and unresponsive in a hospital bed.
I don’t know what it is about American cyclists and near death experiences, but I hope Saul Raisin can someday do what Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong did in coming back from near fatal life experiences, but most of all I hope he can just live a normal life free of the effect of his head injury.
Saul has a Raisin’ Hope ride in a few days on March 31st. You can still donate or bid on some auction items before the event.
BikeRide.com photo of Raisin racing in the 2003 World Championships.
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