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.

SPIN! Pizza Bike Ride

I went out Monday night of the SPIN! Pizza Ride that left from the Overland Park location. The first 75 people to sign in received a free pair of socks! I think I signed in as #20. There ended up being around 80 people on the ride, I've never ridden in a group that large before. I was a little nervous at first as we were heading out and finding a place in line with everyone. Ended up being a good ride. I did the shorter route which was around 13 miles, next time, I'm going to get out faster to keep up with the first pack to do the longer loop.

TDB 2011

Tour de Brew:

On May 22nd I rode in the 1st Annual Tour de Brew. 62 miles around Kansas City. The first 10 miles took you through the Beer History of Kansas City. However, I was too busy riding my bike to stop and look at the fancy brochure they gave us for the tour. Overall a good ride, and organized considering it was their first year. Can't wait til next year.

One Bike, One Camera

A simple concept... When I ride around on my bike, I usually have a camera with me. When I do longer rides, I may mount a camera on my bike and take one picture every mile. Sometimes I do ride without my camera, and I may use this blog to tell you about those adventures. Sometimes I have my camera when I'm not riding my bike, and again, I may use this blog to tell you about those adventures. But I assure you, a bike and/or  camera will somehow be involved with each post.