blog = biking log :-)
Distance: 76 km
Average Speed: 30.67 km/h
Total Time: 2 hours 29 minutes
Total blog km: 317.75
Legs felt good. I did laps at the CNE, with about 40 or 50 other people (in addition the the ride to work and back)! It was awesome, I've never ridden in such a large group. And I'm happy to say that I think I wasn't the slowest, I tried to stay closer to the front most of the time, and had my share of long pulls! During my best one, I kept the speed up at 38 or 39 km/h into a headwind, and near the end a guy behind yelled 'yes yes yes!'....kinda surprised me since I didn't know what he was saying at first, hehe. Anyway, 317.75 km in one week....sounds ok to me. A Donut ride over the weekend would have boosted that quite a bit! (100+ kms). Today will be the last hard ride before my race on Sunday (at Albion Hills).
I finished my first aid course today. Learned all sorts of useful things, for example did you know you can do the Heimlich manoeuvre to yourself? Take a large blunt object and hold it in front of your stomach below the xyphoid process (and not on the solar plexus), and just run stomach first into a wall as fast as you can! keep your head up too, or else you'll hit that first :-P. I think this is really important for people to know. Everyone can sorta do the heimlich manoeuvre, but not so many people think of doing it to themselves if they're choking all alone. I also learned CPR, how to deal with seizures, open wounds, broken bones, unconscious non-breathing but with a pulse people (one in five saves lives!), how to roll people around, recognize heart attacks, strokes, heat stroke, heat exhaustion, hypothermia, etc. etc. It was a pretty good course, because we really got to practise everything quite a bit, and also they gave us a handbook with everything we've learned in it.
Ok, hitting the shower...the salt from my ride is still on my forehead!
Average Speed: 30.67 km/h
Total Time: 2 hours 29 minutes
Total blog km: 317.75
Legs felt good. I did laps at the CNE, with about 40 or 50 other people (in addition the the ride to work and back)! It was awesome, I've never ridden in such a large group. And I'm happy to say that I think I wasn't the slowest, I tried to stay closer to the front most of the time, and had my share of long pulls! During my best one, I kept the speed up at 38 or 39 km/h into a headwind, and near the end a guy behind yelled 'yes yes yes!'....kinda surprised me since I didn't know what he was saying at first, hehe. Anyway, 317.75 km in one week....sounds ok to me. A Donut ride over the weekend would have boosted that quite a bit! (100+ kms). Today will be the last hard ride before my race on Sunday (at Albion Hills).
I finished my first aid course today. Learned all sorts of useful things, for example did you know you can do the Heimlich manoeuvre to yourself? Take a large blunt object and hold it in front of your stomach below the xyphoid process (and not on the solar plexus), and just run stomach first into a wall as fast as you can! keep your head up too, or else you'll hit that first :-P. I think this is really important for people to know. Everyone can sorta do the heimlich manoeuvre, but not so many people think of doing it to themselves if they're choking all alone. I also learned CPR, how to deal with seizures, open wounds, broken bones, unconscious non-breathing but with a pulse people (one in five saves lives!), how to roll people around, recognize heart attacks, strokes, heat stroke, heat exhaustion, hypothermia, etc. etc. It was a pretty good course, because we really got to practise everything quite a bit, and also they gave us a handbook with everything we've learned in it.
Ok, hitting the shower...the salt from my ride is still on my forehead!
posted by a bike rider in the big smoke at 6:30 p.m.
1 Comments:
Did you also know that parents can train their (youngish) kids to run into their (the parents') stomachs if they're choking? Apparently kids have actually saved their parents' lives this way!
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