Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Tour de BBQ
This Saturday is the 3rd Annual Tour de BBQ. I'm signed up for the 62 mile route. Mark is signed up to volunteer at one of the rest stops. His shift is after I'll have already passed through. But he'll be done in time to meet up with me at the post ride party.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Sept 5th - Bike 4 the Brain (the video)
9.27 Edit: Apparently my video won "best video" for Bike 4 the Brain. I won a t-shirt! I didn't even know that my posting it to their facebook I was entering anything.
Bike 4 the Brain (and my lungs)
I have not been posting on here as regularly as originally planned, but I'm going to start doing my best to at least post once a week. I've been able to get out and ride a bit more this month, it's been nice not have those 100 degree temps anymore! Mainly I've been doing some 10 mile and 20 mile rides around the neighborhood. Last Wednesday I did the 30 mile Spring Hill loop with R.
Labor Day, Sept 5th I participated in the 72 mile ride for Bike 4 the Brain. R rode too. I did alright, but I could not breathe at all anytime we hit any type of hill! I left the ride feeling a bit defeated and scheduled an appointment to see a doctor about my asthma. I had my appointment on Friday.
They measured my lung capacity and while I don't know the technical terms, I do my best to explain the results. There are large lung airways and small lung airways. At rest, my large lung airways are working at 90%, my small lung airways at 70%. The dr said she would like to see that 70% increase to at least 80%. They had me breathe into a nebulizer for 10 minutes and measured again. My large airways stayed the same and the small ones had increased to 86%, and increase of 23%. I left there with a prescription for Singulair and a refill for my inhaler. I'm supposed to take the Singulair every day for a month and use the inhaler as needed and then show back up in a month for a follow up.
Labor Day, Sept 5th I participated in the 72 mile ride for Bike 4 the Brain. R rode too. I did alright, but I could not breathe at all anytime we hit any type of hill! I left the ride feeling a bit defeated and scheduled an appointment to see a doctor about my asthma. I had my appointment on Friday.
They measured my lung capacity and while I don't know the technical terms, I do my best to explain the results. There are large lung airways and small lung airways. At rest, my large lung airways are working at 90%, my small lung airways at 70%. The dr said she would like to see that 70% increase to at least 80%. They had me breathe into a nebulizer for 10 minutes and measured again. My large airways stayed the same and the small ones had increased to 86%, and increase of 23%. I left there with a prescription for Singulair and a refill for my inhaler. I'm supposed to take the Singulair every day for a month and use the inhaler as needed and then show back up in a month for a follow up.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Bike 4 the Brain
Tomorrow I am signed up to ride the 72 miles distance in the Bike 4 the Brain. R is also signed up to ride and possibly a few other people from our Wednesday morning bike group. I need to make one quick trip to Bike Source today to get an extra tube and some shot bloks. This afternoon I will work on perfecting my camera mount. One picture every mile!!
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