Alyssa was released from the hospital Saturday around noon. She is at home resting and recovering. We were Isanti this weekend for the Land O' Lakes national. We sold 125 shirts in 2 hours today. Thats in addition to the 100 were sold on Weds/Thurs at I-94BMX. Jim from the ABA was even sporting a yellow "Rider Down" shirt. ActionBMX.net sold a ton of raffle tickets for an Intense bike to benefit the Martins. After the races a representative from an out of state track came up to Jimmy and donated $100. We all know that when that happens, the challenge was on! Tracks and teams jumped in and raised hundreds of dollars for the family. The donation that really caught me, was from Team Rockin's Chase (Chicken Weasel) Pauza. Chase has long golden hair that he's pretty proud of. He offered to cut his hair to raise money for Alyssa. A couple bucks a snip. A few others followed and they ended up raising over a hundred bucks. That’s awesome! Big thanks to Chase, to do something like that is really classy!! When she got to the hospital, they had to cut Alyssa's new pink Fly jersey. Not only did Mikes's Bikes donate a new one for her, but they had a second one signed by hundreds of racers and their families wishing her well. Every inch of it was covered! Almost every news channel from the metro area ran a story about Alyssa. Here are a couple links.
Fox 9 http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6875077&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
WCCO http://wcco.com/local/tug.of.war.2.758777.html