From his Twitter: "So the first track race didn’t go very well. Broken scapula, collarbone, ribs, and partially collapsed lung."
And it was not his actual first race, but first race of the day. Also from Twitter: “'First track race' was poor choice of words. Been a few years but I did many summers and Friday nights at ttown and many other tracks and national/international events. It was the first (and possibly last) event of this chapter."