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Lindsay Augustine
from Aurora University | Signed on: Wed 16 May 2007 05:26:16 PM MST
Hey Saul-I was with the group that watched your testing at CTS. I just wanted to say thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us and tell us your amazing story. I can't believe how much hope and will power you have. You really are a miracle. I hope everything works out for you and you succeed, which we are all sure you will!! Congrats on getting married too! Thanks again and I wish you all the best!!
~Lindsay |
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Lindsey Horneck
from Aurora University, Aurora IL | Signed on: Wed 16 May 2007 10:43:11 AM MST
Saul-
It was great meeting you today at the Carmichael. What an amazing story of your accident and how you are able to get back onto your feet again, let alone a bike. Hope all is well and you keep getting stronger everyday. You are a very talented athlete and I wish you the best of luck woth everything that you do. Congrates on the wedding. Let me know if there are any cariety races for your funds, I am very interested in maybe coming and participating in a couple of them. Thanks again for taking time out of your day and talking with my group, this is a day I will never forget!!!! |
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Nicole Capone
from from Aurora University, Aurora IL. | Signed on: Wed 16 May 2007 10:32:33 AM MST
Hey Saul! I am a part of the group that met you and watched your testing this morning. (wed. 5/16) I think that you are just incredible and I can't wait to hear the rest of your story. I am looking forward to following your career and reading your book when it comes out. I'm curious how often group fundraising rides are? i know you guys just had the Raisin Hope ride and stuff, but I would love to participate in a big group ride like that. Let me know if you post dates like this on your web site and I will be sure to keep myself updated. Thanks again for speaking with our group this morning, it was a great expierence and we all learned so much!
Nicole Capone |
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Ian Reid
from Sacramento ca. | Signed on: Mon 14 May 2007 11:01:23 PM MST
Saul, sounds like you guys are having a great time in Utah. Rest up and blow up the meter in Colorado. got my fingers crossed. Hope I can connect with you and Aleeza in Salt lake in July.
Thanks for the last 60k of san Remo it was one for the books. |
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Gerda
from Belgium | Signed on: Mon 14 May 2007 02:04:57 PM MST
Keep my thumbs up for you today. Let us know how it went.
Looking forward to see you race again. |
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Vern
from Salt Lake City | Signed on: Mon 14 May 2007 08:03:34 AM MST
Saul, Mark and I rode with you up to the mouth of little cottonwood Saturday morning. Great chatting with you and hearing how well you are recovering. |
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Kendall Hill
from Eagle Mountain, Utah | Signed on: Mon 14 May 2007 04:35:55 AM MST
I was riding along Wasatch Blvd in Salt Lake City on Saturday when I saw a cyclist riding towards me wearing Credit Agricole team kit. My first thought is \"I wonder if that is Saul Raisin? Nah, what would he be doing in SLC?\" Then I read your blog that you were in fact in SLC at that time. It is great to see you back on the bike. Hope you continue to improve.[velofreak@thebluezone.net] |
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Jan Slabbekoorn
from Wemeldinge, the Netherlands | Signed on: Mon 14 May 2007 03:00:53 AM MST
Great photo's of you and your new familiy. What a view on the mountains!
How was your VO2 test?
jan |
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Micheala
from Dalton, Georgia | Signed on: Sun 13 May 2007 06:51:44 PM MST
Hey Saul always fun to read your updates and browse your photos. Thanks for letting your fans share in your exciting life.
Also, very happy this new chapter in your life is going so well.
Take care,
Micheala |
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Greg Milledge
from Brea CA | Signed on: Tue 08 May 2007 09:44:55 PM MST
Saul, I really enjoyed the book excerpt and plan to pre-order my copy. Congratulations on your engagement, adoption and new place in Salt Lake. You look like a happy family already. Keep Raisin' Hell in your recovery. God Bless, Greg |
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Quino
from Salt Lake City | Signed on: Mon 07 May 2007 06:24:41 PM MST
Hi Saul,
I rode with you on Sunday to Alta. Thanks for the push. It feels good to ride with the professionals. Your story is certainly inspiring. I hope you recover fully and become one of the great, so one day I can tell people that I rode with you and everybody knows who I am talking about. I am sure you will get there.
By the way, if you can make it from 7-Eleven to the second entrance to Snowbird in 45 minutes you will probably have the best time ever. I have never been able to do it in less than 50 minutes but 46 is the record. I am 18 years older than you, so you can make it.
Good luck.
Quino |
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Frank Everly
from Dallas, Texas | Signed on: Mon 07 May 2007 02:50:21 PM MST
Hey Saul, glad to hear your doing well. My nephew, Evan Vaughan, had the same kind of crash as you did last January 2006 and was either not expected to live or be paralyzed due to the massive head injury. He was in a coma for about a week and thank God, has survived and is a healthy teenage kid getting ready to start college at TCU. Unlike you though, he is afraid to race and keeps saying his career is over at 18 and will never be able to race again!! If there is any chance, I would love for you to email me so you can send him a word or two on how you jumped back on the bike and still racing. My email address is: frank.everly@hmshost.com |
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| gerda | Signed on: Mon 07 May 2007 12:40:32 PM MST
Your boys are cute! Yeah, you just have to love them.
Are this news pictures? Don't tell me it's snowing over there!
Be careful at training. |
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Terabanitoss
from USA | Signed on: Sun 06 May 2007 02:55:54 PM MST
Hi all!
You are The Best!!!
G'night
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John Renz
from Crown Point, Indiana | Signed on: Fri 04 May 2007 08:06:41 PM MST
Congratulations Saul on your recent engagement. Enjoyed meeting you and Eric Heiden in Chickamauga during the Tour de Georgia. You looked great! You are in our prayers and hope you just keep getting better everyday. God Bless You! |
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Tim Old
from NwGa/Calhoun | Signed on: Fri 04 May 2007 05:00:56 PM MST
Saul , so good to read of your continuing improvement and all the changes . Congrats again to you and Aleeza. Your Saul Raisin ride here in Dalton was my last ride, what a thrill it was to ride for such a worthy cause , especially as I am a fellow head injury myself, sadly 2 days later ( I wish I could say it was cycling, but it was actually helping my wife to dust lol) I tore my ACL tore my cartilage in 2 places, so here I sit, a new ACL graft in place, recovering enduring physiotherapy, what a hoot ! lol ah well, , keep at it, keep those pedals turning and all the best in the upcoming year to you both! |
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Coy McAffee
from Salt Lake City, Utah | Signed on: Wed 02 May 2007 07:40:46 PM MST
It was nice to meet you today. Good luck with your continued recovery. Hope to see you riding around Salt Lake City. I'll be looking forward to seeing you in a big tour race in Europe soon. |
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Ben Miron
from Austin, TX | Signed on: Tue 01 May 2007 04:44:49 PM MST
Hey Saul, congratulations on the engagement. That is awesome. I will pass the news on to my parents. Glad everything is going well. Drop me a line sometime benmiron@mail.utexas.edu
-Ben |
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David Demery
from Brandon Florida | Signed on: Tue 01 May 2007 04:33:27 PM MST
Saul
I went to the Tour de Georgia and meet Dave Shields. Who helped write your book. I ordered your book on the net. He said he forwarded my message to you. I ride my bike about 9 miles every day. I had an accident and was run over by a truck when I was seven. I am now 36 but a big cycling fan. I have a trach in my neck that I press to talk. Hope to get to ride with you someday.
Thanks David Demery my email is deuce1.1@netzero.net phone is 813-685-0290 |
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Margot
from Belgium | Signed on: Tue 01 May 2007 12:53:30 PM MST
Hi,
I just read the first chapter of your book , it was hard for me to understand because , I have only two years english behind me. But for so far I understood it , I like it very much at the end I was crying .... It's such a wonderfull story because you survived it. I hope to read the full story soon and I hope it will be translated in my language.
I wish you the best in everything....
grtz Margotsilou23@hotmail.com |
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Iris
from SD | Signed on: Tue 01 May 2007 12:38:23 AM MST
Hi Saul
Congratulations on your engagement - lovely lady - how about some pictures of the 2 boys?
I love cats too.
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Rod Wallbridge
from Doonan, Queensland, Australia | Signed on: Mon 30 Apr 2007 02:46:27 PM MST
G'day!
I came off my Colnago in December, 1992 [Stood the bike up whilst going 'round a corner at speed in hilly country to miss the car over on my side of the road and naturally didn't go 'round the corner! Trouble was it was a 5 metre (18 foot) drop over the edge!] and am still slowly getting back to normal from my closed head injury, multiple rib fractures, haemo-pneumo-thorax, ruptured AC joint etc.! etc.! Keep up the good work in your recovery, I know what it's like! Don't slack, but don't try too much either; look after yourself!
Cheers!
Rod |
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Duane Duggan
from Boulder CO | Signed on: Sun 29 Apr 2007 09:29:06 PM MST
Hey Saul-
Congratulations on your recent engagement. I hope you are riding full force for the Tour de Georgia next year.
Sincerely,
Duane Duggan |
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John Arnold
from Waterloo,Ontario,Canada | Signed on: Sun 29 Apr 2007 05:24:23 AM MST
Hello Saul, Thank-you for starting your foundation. A brain injury is not vvery well understood by the public so I hope that you also edvcuate people.
I also am recovering from a brain injury caused by a bike accident. My accident was in Aug. 2006 and I under went sergury in Oct 2006 for a brain hhorhage. After coming out of my induced coma I was paralyzed on my enttre left side. I also lost my left vision.
I can now move my left side and amrunning. Not on the bike yet but the carbon Specialize wants to be ridden. |
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Hardy Lee
from Stone Mountain, Georgia | Signed on: Sat 28 Apr 2007 06:03:03 PM MST
Saul...Having watched two recent stages of the Tour de Georgia, your name and story were talked about many times. As a beginning cyclist, you are a true inspiration to me. I wish you well in your bid to return to the pro peleton. You WILL succeed!! Met Dave Shields at TDG and have your book on order. Can't wait to get it. Keep the chin up and working to make life better for those around you!
Hardy Lee |
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Lance Ashton
from Salt Lake City | Signed on: Sat 28 Apr 2007 06:44:55 AM MST
Hi Saul,
Thanks for stopping in to the Coffee Shop. I have enjoyed our visits and I love you website. Best of luck in all of your endeavors,
Lance |
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trey mcneil
from miami , fl | Signed on: Fri 27 Apr 2007 09:12:31 PM MST
hey saul raisin,
my name is trey mcneil. i used to be your friend down coventry st in 94-95 in dalton, ga going to school at City Park. i remember going rock climbing with your family in Chattanooga, TN & playing the hell outta SNES Donkey Kong. From there i moved to Toronto, Canada. I came back to GA in Marietta area where i finished HS. I went to The University of TN where i majored in World Business and did study abroads in Belgium & France. i now live in Miami working for an international investment form. i would love to hear about all your adventures since those times as well. my email is hgmcneil@gmail.com drop me a line |
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gerda
from belgium | Signed on: Fri 27 Apr 2007 06:36:47 AM MST
Hey Saul
Seems we're both moving. I move to my new place tomorrow, you just moved to a new place.
Have fun meeting all these new friends but don't forget to train real hard. it's still a long raod ahead. But you'll make it, no doubt about that. |
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Art Monty
from Antibes France | Signed on: Thu 26 Apr 2007 01:00:12 PM MST
Saul, wonderful to hear you're engaged, and back on your bike training, have deen following your progress since your accident, you are a very lucky guy especially now that you have a very significant other, I'm a retired cyclist who is also a neighbor living in Antibes six mo. per year, if you want to chat some day give me a call, we can compare notes on some local rides, once a gain my heartiest congratulations.
Art Monty |
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Amanda
from salt lake city | Signed on: Thu 26 Apr 2007 09:18:02 AM MST
Saul-
i have heard so many wonderful things about you. you make my friend very happy! wishing you the best with your foundation and looking forward to meeting you soon! 
Comment: I can't wait to meet you! I have heard so much about you. Thanks for the message. |
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