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Sandy Scott :

I had lots of people approach me at the races last Sunday complimenting me on my Pirate gear.
Lots of pictures were taken, and I particularly got popular after I beat a current national champion in two events!
I told everyone that I wear Pirate gear because like genuine Pirates, I am here to take all of the gold!
It's a shame I didn't have the stuff a week earlier because I was involved in a professional photo shoot for a magazine article because of winning the Masters Athlete Comeback of the Year Award for coming back from a broken neck (C1 cervical vertebrae) just two years ago, and then taking 4 Florida state championships.



On a quickly resume, I was a three event national running champion in my youth (5K track, 10K cross country, and member of national championship winning relay team). I came to cycling very late in life at the age of 64, but as you can see from the picture "winner20K" I'm not exactly the typical 67 year old.
With just 11 months of cycling total, I broke the Florida State 5K time trial record. I have notched victories against 4 national champions and one world champion, and I am the current USCF state road race and time trial champion here in Florida and also the current Florida Senior Games state time trial and road race champion.



I broke my neck with just a little over a year of riding when during a time trial in which I had passed everyone that started in front of me, I unexpectedly arrived at the finish line at a high rate of speed and an official stepped in my path.
When I swerved my time trial bike running a rear disk wheel and very narrow 19 mm front wheel pumped up to 150 psi, witnesses tell me I went flying over the handlebars and speared the ground head first at a high rate of speed leading to a serious neck fracture and 5 months in a stiff cast.
I started riding my trainer 70 minutes a day just three days after breaking my neck, and much to the dismay of my physician started lifting weights a week later.
It took 9 months for the fracture to heal, and just a few months later I won my first two Florida titles. That led to my winning the Masters Comeback of the Year Award, and that will be announced and in the December issue of GeezerJock magazine in which I will be featured.

I am well known around Florida - my specialty is beating up on the young studs in the faster club rides, and I have defeated two triathlon professionals (one in his 20s and the other one age 31) in sprints.
This also all led to me getting a sponsorship from Guru bikes out of Canada who supplied me with a custom made $8000 Guru Geneo.

I am a retired airline pilot and I train at least 22 hours every week, and rarely have less than 300 miles of training per week. I have missed only 5 days of training the entire year.



As you can see from some of the pictures, I like "different" kinds of outfits, but I am really taken with the Pirate stuff in that I have a collection of skull stuff, and I made the cover of Tattoo magazine with a skull tattoo on my right shoulder, and in that I have 657 skydives (a sport I did not take up until the age of 55), I have a skull with parachute tattooed on my right leg.



As soon as I found your skull jerseys on eBay some months ago, I immediately had to have a black and white one! The skin suit was really a find for me! :)

I take drum lessons, and plan to be the first 70 year old rock and roll drummer.
I hope to gig for the stones when their current drummer goes - he looks like he is on his last leg! :) I was heavily into martial arts and fought Gary Alexander who was the first United States Karate Champion.
I am a member of Mensa, and played in chess tournaments for years. It goes on and on, and I don't want to bore you to tears.

I am a California boy BTW, who grew up in Stockton and attended UCAL Berkeley.

Sandy

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