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...after experiencing my own near-statistic-making event.
There I was, about 10 miles into my usual Saturday 14-mile mountain bike ride through the high desert outside of Las Vegas. I had procrastinated a little that day because of 30 mph winds in the morning, so I didn't get on the trail until about 1530. Being the last weekend in January, shadows were already long, and I estimated I'd have to hustle through my hour-and-45-minute ride without the two rest stops I usually make in order to get off the trail before dark. Wearing all the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) consisting of a helmet, gloves, shatterproof sunglasses as eye protection, and a windproof fleece jacket to ward off the mid-30s wind chill, and having checked my bike over before leaving home, I was confident that my risk was as low as it could be. I wasn't concerned that there was only one other car besides mine in the normally crowded parking...
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