I compete and follow Triathlon. I love running trails and MTB’s.
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I have a love/hate relationship with this- love it right until I wreck.. lol – at Murfreesboro, TN
Jay Jackson retweeted
A 20-year-old woman was sitting in a car stopped at a red light when a motorcycle hit her from behind at about 124 mph.
The bike weighed roughly a quarter of what her car did, and it still hit with the same energy as her car slamming into a brick wall at 62.
This was in the city of Luhansk back in March, a little before 10pm. Russian outlets say the rider was 18, on a Yamaha R6, and estimated his speed from the footage at around 200 km/h. She was in the passenger seat of the second car waiting at the light.
Here's how the math works. The energy something carries goes up with its weight, but it goes up with the square of its speed. So if you cut the weight to a quarter and double the speed, you end up in the exact same place. An R6 with a rider on it is around 575 pounds. The Lada she was in, a little Russian sedan, is around 2,300. At 124 mph that bike was carrying about 400 kilojoules, if you want to check my math, which is what the Lada would be carrying into a wall at 62.
And all of it hit one spot. When a car hits a wall, the whole front end soaks up the impact. A motorcycle is about 27 inches wide at the handlebars, so everything got jammed into one narrow strip of the back of her car. Rescuers had to cut her out with hydraulic tools.
Her car went from sitting still to roughly 22 mph in a fraction of a second, from behind, with nobody inside expecting anything.
You might notice her car's taillights look dark in the video. Honestly, it wouldn't have mattered. At 124 mph you cover about 180 feet every second. Even if he reacted in one second flat, he'd travel 180 feet before touching the brakes, and a sportbike braking as hard as its tires can handle needs around 500 more. That's more than two football fields. He was almost certainly out of room to stop before he ever showed up on this camera.
He wasn't out there alone, either. Russian outlets say another guy on a motorcycle was riding with him, and that rider made it through the same intersection fine.
The 18-year-old died at the scene. She was hospitalized with multiple fractures, including her spine, and later reports out of Russia said she died in intensive care.
However you feel about guys who ride like that, I keep coming back to her. She did the thing every one of us does a dozen times a day, stopping at a red light and waiting for green.
The obsession with phones.. scrolling loner activity and women who video anyone who smiles at them will make encounters like this rare in the future..
Driving home from Nashville a few days ago, the wife wanted to stop in Franklin to do a bit of Christmas shopping. Obedient to her wishes as I am, I make the detour and park. As we strolled along the square, I see an older man sitting alone on a bench. Being the sort who initiates conversation with strangers, I say jokingly:
“You look like a man who is waiting for his wife while she spends his money.”
He gives me a wan smile and replies: “I wish I was.” His voice cracks. “She passed away last November.”
We stop. I extend a sympathetic hand. He shakes it and rises to greet us. Lauri asks him about his wife, and he tells us what a wonderful woman she was and of their 50 years of marriage. His eyes welling with tears, he says he comes to the square and sits on that bench daily to reminisce about her because it was their spot for decades. He seems glad to have someone, even strangers, with whom he can talk.
We chat a bit longer, exchange numbers, and I ask him if we can pray for him. A believer, he readily accepts the offer. So, right there on the square in Franklin we pray for the Lord’s comforting presence and peace in his loss. We open our eyes and, at that very moment, a woman walks by hurriedly and reaches for the bench behind this fellow. Only I see it, and I think she might be stealing his phone which he had left on the bench when he rose to speak with us.
I walk to the bench to investigate and see that she’s left a card, a little plastic dove glued on it, proclaiming the hope of John 3:16. I look up to see her far down the sidewalk, her brisk pace undiminished, placing them everywhere in her own evangelistic endeavor. God bless her for it.
Lauri and I wished our new friend well and proceeded to shop. I bought a new vest at her encouragement — “It looks good on you” — and she bought some aromatic candles — “cinnamon vanilla.” But all the while we were thinking of this man and the seemingly coincidental nature of our meeting. The Lord had used us to visibly encourage him.
I cannot tell you the number of times I have had such encounters simply because I spoke to a stranger: a taxi driver who told me someone had murdered his daughter; a waitress who cried when I told her she was doing a good job; a contractor who, just last week, revealed to me how the Lord had delivered him from meth addiction when I was sharing the Gospel with him; and a young woman who looked unsettled and I simply asked her what troubled her so.
There are people all around you who carry secret burdens, and the Lord puts you in their path for a reason. Do you notice them? Or do you press on to “more important” things? Pray that the Lord gives you eyes to see them and the heart to minister to them. It will do you as much good as you do them.
Jay Jackson retweeted
What has parity has wrought, Week 8 edition ,,,
--Kentucky, after 8 weeks, leads the SEC after beating Vandy.
--There are 3 undefeateds— one of them UCLA is the only undefeated team among the Power 2. Miami and ... Utah are the others.
--That mushroom cloud you see over Eugene is Oregon being knocked out of the national picture by Illinois. The preseason no 1 in some quarters is now 4-3.
--New Mexico has the nation's no 1 scoring defense after beating North Dakota St 21-13. The Lobos lead the Mountain West and are in the thick of the g6 playoff berth chase. Ticket manager/coach Jason Eck, a hot coaching property, and his Lobos played before the largest unm crowd in 21 years.
--No 25 Arizona controls its own destiny in the Big 12 and, consequently, for a playoff berth.
--Per CBS Sports, the last time FBS had 3 or fewer undefeated teams by OCT 24 was 1977 -- the year before FBS was created.
--Wake Forest is 6-1 having won four Power Four games on the road.
Crazy… in November.. UK will be in first place or at worst tied with UGA if UGA beats Florida which this year isn’t a given.. no win or loss is
Sounds really good too
Formula 1 gets Dolby Atmos support on Apple TV in the U.S. starting today 9to5mac.com/2026/10/23/formu… by @mvcmendes
Yet another Kenyan caught cheating… hard to ever give any of their athletes credit for anything
Nashville is losing IndyCar… not shocked no one wants to drive to Lebanon for that race or not enough do
#IndyCar is set to drop Nashville Superspeedway and Washington D.C. from the schedule in 2027 while Barcelona announcement draws near:
motorsport.com/indycar/news/…
BMW sells a lot of cars in China… kind of explains their new styling strategy.. ugly.. they ruined the X3 now the X5
2027 BMW X5 Drives Great but May Be Too Weird for Some caranddriver.com/reviews/a74…
Jay Jackson retweeted
Las Vegas Runner Phil Young Survives Cardiac Arrest, Heart Walk disq.us/t/5bc50lc – at Paradise Valley, AZ
First date with a woman 42.. yrs ago.. never married no kids.. lived in Sylvan Park.. talking (don’t remember why it came up) told her I was watching re runs of Everybody Loves Raymond.. her mouth turned inward explaining how misogynistic the show is.. and I was stunned.. said well guess we should not talk about the All in the family episode I saw a few days ago.. no 2nd date but I did pay for her meal- she let me do that
A woman that ended up single, childless and unmarried at 40 years old says she has made no mistakes and blames the men she was with.
In reality, when you see this happen to women, it’s almost always because they insisted on only dating total Chads, who never commit to them since they can get limitless women, and refused to date average men who would have married them. xitter.cf/ItzBlondiebitch/status…
Well .. I am not going to pretend to understand why.. represent a former well known Nashville radio personality and come to learn.. it’s a money driven industry.. facing much larger challenges selling ads than in the past.. bet the show wasn’t selling well
Blaine Bishop is out at 104.5 The Zone after nearly 17 years.
The former #Titans safety is no longer co-hosting Cover Two with Zach Lyons.
My report:
paulkuharsky.com/news/blaine…
This is funny
When he loves Sydney Sweeney
This is spot on.😂 That "I look nothing like that." comment🤣 lol should’ve picked one that looks like his girl or someone not as attractive 🤣🤣 best way to avoid the fight. Better if he said his crush was Lizzo
via @NikkiAlexis w/ Gabe Greenspan
#comedy #funny #comedyvideo #comedyvideo
Jay Jackson retweeted
This baby makes the street performer break her position.
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