Bicyclist -- In General . . .

After a rough end to last week -- and a snowy start to Monday -- I was happy to see a pretty good job all around on the bicyclist exercise.

Good ledes finding ways to combine the newsiest element (the crash, which happened a long time ago and in one sense was old news) and the latest element (her release from the hospital, which is the latest happening but less interesting than why she was in the hospital), that were also paired with nut grafs that provided just enough background summary information to allow readers to then jump into the narrative, like here:

Marsha Taylor, a competitive bicyclist who was hit by a car and sent flying from her bicycle ion October, was released two days ago from Omar Memorial Hospital.

She said she was hit while riding down 72nd Street around Southland Boulevard. Taylor suffered a mild concussion, a broken neck, six broken ribs, a broken left arm and and a broken pelvis.

. . . and . . .

On Saturday morning, avid bicyclist Marsha L. Taylor was released from Omar Memorial Hospital after suffering physical and internal injuries caused after a car collided with her bike four months ago.

A Holt resident, Taylor said she suffered a mild concussion, a broken left arm, neck , pelvis and six broken ribs after the Oct. 1 accident on 72nd Street.

. . . and . . .

Marsha L. Taylor is still in recovery after being hit from behind while riding her bicycle on 72nd Street on Oct. 1.

Taylor was released from the hospital two days ago after sustaining multiple injuries including multiple broken bones and internal injuries discovered while she was in rehab, she said.

(Note here how the writer took the "broken this and broken that" and simply summed it up as multiple broken bones. Another option would be to list all the breaks together, so you only would have to use the word "broken" once, like this: She broke her neck, six ribs, her left arm and pelvis. The preceding lede's nut graf tried something along these lines.)

Others of you chose to featurize the lede, turning it anecdotal and/or contextual and pairing it with good nut grafs, like here . . .

When you go for a bike ride, you don't expect it to be four months until you return home. But for Marsha L. Taylor, that was just the case.

Four months ago the avid cyclist said she found herself in Omar Memorial Hospital with multiple injuries after she was hit by a car while riding her bike.

. . . and . . .

One doctor said it was a miracle she didn't get paralyzed.

But after months of rehabilitation and treatments for injuries following an accident on 72nd street when a car struck her from behind while she was riding her bike last October, Marsha L. Taylor was released from Omar Memorial Hospital two days ago.

. . . and. . .

Marsha Taylor was taking a typical bike ride down 72nd Street in Hold on Oct. 1. The next thing she remembered was waking up in the hospital.

According to Taylor, a car hit her off her bike from behind, causing her to have a mild concussion, a broken neck, six broken ribs, a broken arm, and a broken pelvis.Taylor was released from the hospital two days ago after a four-month recovery process.

. . . and . . .

What could case a mild concussion, broken neck, six broken ribs, a broken arm, broken pelvis, perforated small intestine and liver and gall bladder injury?

For avid cyclist Marsha L. Taylor, 37, it was an Oct. 1 bicycle accident that kept her in the hospital for four months.

Taylor was released just days ago.

. . . and this was one was especially nice, because it found a larger theme . . .

Marsha L. Taylor, a local bicyclist, said she couldn't imagine her life without bicycling despite being injured in a bicycling accident last year that almost left her paralyzed.

Taylor, 37, was released from the hospital two days ago after being in recovery and rehabilitation since the beginning of October.

Where this lede and nut graf missed an opportunity was with what followed. The writer began with the chronological narrative after the nut graf. But I think that was a sweet spot in which to place a telling quote that supported the lede and nut graf, like this one:

"No, I still want to ride. If I could, I'd be out there right now, but it's hard to ride a bike when you have to use crutches."

Powerful quote, right? And very humanizing, too. It perfectly supports your main point and adds a human voice that underlines context.