Help me help others...

It has been a while since I have been around because I am working on getting myself back in shape. I didn't get in Ride the Rockies but have signed up to do the MS Charity Ride (if you are interested in sponsoring a fellow pacer you can check it out here: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Bike/COCBikeEvents?px=10605191&pg=personal&fr_id=17994). Along with this ride I am also once again doing the Triple Bypass (120 miles over 10K of climbing) and hope to do some other century rides.

My leg still hasn't fully healed from getting hit by the SUV but I don't plan on letting it slow me down any more than the pacer did.

Wish me luck on my rides for this coming cycling season. I hope to have over a 900 miles under my belt already this year and am shooting for 5000. Wish me luck.

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by Mitch - 2012-03-26 11:03:20

Referenced org. is great!
I have been wanting to do that triple byass, great ride!
I did the Stonewall 2 years ago when I was only 75 hope to do it again this year. Have done Inedpendance, Monarch, Wolf creek, Cottonwood, Loveland, and a bunch of lesser passes. Since getting my pacer I have been putting in from 8000 to as high as 12000 miles/year. With all that though I have never done a century with over 10k of climbing. Have to admit that scares me a little. For my birthday I ride double my age, hope to do that when I hit 80.

Good luck on your rides this season would like to hear how they go. Hope the leg heals ok.

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by Gibbo3884 - 2013-02-24 11:02:43

Thanks to all posting here. I am still reeling, Shocked and stunned after suddenly waking up in the ICU with a pacemaker just 5 days ago. 5 days ago I did not know what a pm was. Great to see what is ahead of me. I'm up here in the Utah mountains and a recreational cyclists with a love for spinning classes. Dying to get back on my spinner and my road bike eventually. Have a Boston Scientific model K173 The wrong meds (immediate release Diltiazem instead of the prescribed extended release) dropped my heart to 28 bpm and I guess that's what triggered the implantation and me passing out in the ambulance.). I had Aflutter and was shocked back on the table with cardioversion. I have a block going on with one half of my heart racing and the other real slow. Sorry for the bob-tech language. I'll learn it!
One thing I am realizing is resting heart rate form my POLAR HR monitor which I was told is ok to wear with a pm is stuck at a 90 resting hr. That's the way they calibrated it in the hospital.
Any idea of WHEN I should slip on my Sidi'saand crank up my spinner?
I am an ex-college offensive lineman and still bench press 350 ten reps at 55. Can I get back to that without yanking out some wires?
Thanks a million!

JIM in Utah

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