Someone else with my luck.

Last year on August 11th I hit a deer at 40mph on a downhill with my bike. As a result of my injuries I had to withdraw from Ironman Wisconsin. I know I was lucky to walk away from my crash with just a broken bike and a lot less skin but at the same time it was just my luck. Well, today I read the story below and yes she's lucky to be alive, but at the same time. Wow, how unlucky.

So what do you do after you are struck by lightening while training for an Ironman triathlon.

If you are 44-year-old Terri Menghini you go out and buy a Powerball ticket.

"I was just lucky. So I'm going to go buy a Powerball ticket now," Menghini said

The mother of 5 was riding mile 78 of her 100-mile bike ride on North Foothills Highway just ourside of Boulder, Colorado near Longhorn Road, when the sky turns dark and she saw lightening in the distance.

"I thought, 'I'm two miles from my car. That's about five minutes. I'm going to go for it,'" Menghini said.

But luck was not on her side.

"There was one lightning bolt and within a minute, the second one got me," she added.

Menghini passed out and when she woke up she could not move her arms and there were people standing over her holding umbrellas.

She was taken to Boulder Community Hospital were she was treated for her injuries, which included a temporary loss of eye sight, fortunately she was mostly uninjured and she was eventually released.

"My training, I'm still going to do it," she said. "I've been an athlete my whole life, and I'm not going to stop that."