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02-09-17, 06:47 PM
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02-09-17, 07:50 PM
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Welcome back to the regular world @sarals! What a crazy/scary episode that was.
Feel better. See you next week!
Feel better. See you next week!
02-09-17, 09:15 PM
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It was WEIRD....
See you and Ex next week! YAY!!
See you and Ex next week! YAY!!
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02-10-17, 10:19 AM
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@sarals Welcome back and very happy that you are better. We all have some sort of weakness that we have to monitor and take action when appropriate. I am sure that you will take good care of yourself!
02-10-17, 10:58 AM
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Positive thoughts, @sarals! Please take care of yourself.
02-10-17, 11:24 AM
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@revchuck: Let me know if you want to go for a ride when you get to the Ol' Pueblo. I am just getting over a bad stomach flu ( 
) but should be able to ride when you are here.
) but should be able to ride when you are here.
02-10-17, 11:32 AM
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@revchuck: Let me know if you want to go for a ride when you get to the Ol' Pueblo. I am just getting over a bad stomach flu ( ) but should be able to ride when you are here.
) but should be able to ride when you are here.
I'm doing the Shootout on the 25th, the intervening days are yet to be decided.Glad you're feeling better!
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Demain, on roule!
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02-10-17, 12:03 PM
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Maybe i won't go for a lunch ride - the nelson road fire is on my normal lunch loop.
Two wind-blown wildfires in Boulder County prompt evacuation of nearly 300 homes, structures burned ? The Denver Post
Two wind-blown wildfires in Boulder County prompt evacuation of nearly 300 homes, structures burned ? The Denver Post
02-10-17, 12:28 PM
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Thanks, this is the worst illness I remember in quite some time. Hit my stomach hard and it is still in a knot many days later. Now I am having severe leg cramps as well with just simple walking. Ugh...Maybe the flu shot is in order for me next year.
Great! I haven't been on a group ride in some time (burnout) but I may join you for the shootout. I assume the early shootout, yes?
Great! I haven't been on a group ride in some time (burnout) but I may join you for the shootout. I assume the early shootout, yes?
02-10-17, 01:04 PM
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@Hermes, @LAJ, thank you, fellas.
I guess it's called "age"? The "inevitable creep towards the end"? It certainly was an eye opener for me, and it's hitting me a little harder mentally today than it did when I was hospitalized. I'm anxious to get on the bike, that is so therapeutic for me.
@Hermes, BTW, BJ is at VSC for the next few days. She's going to do a LAVRA event. Perhaps you'll run across her?
I guess it's called "age"? The "inevitable creep towards the end"? It certainly was an eye opener for me, and it's hitting me a little harder mentally today than it did when I was hospitalized. I'm anxious to get on the bike, that is so therapeutic for me.
@Hermes, BTW, BJ is at VSC for the next few days. She's going to do a LAVRA event. Perhaps you'll run across her?
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02-11-17, 11:02 AM
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@Heathpack A week in the life of P-22, the big cat who shares Griffith Park with millions of people - Los Angeles Times Interesting story about a mountain lion living among humans.
The lion has a GPS collar such that he is tracked. However, he covers a lot of territory.
The lion has a GPS collar such that he is tracked. However, he covers a lot of territory.
02-11-17, 11:52 AM
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Here is a feel good story. I suspect that most have seen this on Facebook.
Last weekend, my wife and I rode with her racing team at team camp. Sunday, the ride was through San Onofre State beach along the ocean. This San Onofre state park connects San Clemente to Camp Pendleton, the marine base.
We turned around at the entry to the marine base and started back. There is a bike path along the ocean next to Highway 5. We approach the gate to San Onofre state park and after going through it, stop at the first rest room for a bio break.
A cyclist pulls up and states that a cyclist is down south of us on the pavement and is turning blue on the other side of the gate. There are two registered nurses that race on the team. I was listening to the cyclist talk processing what he was saying. By the time I realized what really was happening, the two nurses with a lead out from another racer were racing toward the downed cyclist.
When I got there, the women were performing chest compressions and rescue breathes and the patient was in cardiac arrest. It took 20 minutes for the paramedics to show up since this is not an easy area to access during which the nurses continued CPR. I assumed the cyclist was finished.
The result is nothing short of a miracle. The cyclist was taken to the hospital and put in ICU and placed in a coma. He body temperature was lowered to stem off neuro damage from the cardiac arrest.
Yesterday he had two stents put in his heart and is going home today and expected to make a complete recovery. He was 44 years old a father of two children and married to a wonderful wife for 18 years.
The statistics of surviving cardiac arrest when not in the hospital are very poor and if one survives generally there is heart and neurological damage. This result is simply stunning and obviously a result of having two professional nurses rush to his aid taking action immediately.
We have all been in the hospital and know how dedicated and committed nurses are to the patients. However, seeing them in action in the field was a lesson in how to save a life.
Besides the family, everyone at the scene was devastated. It is very hard to witness these events. Having such a good outcome is a great feeling for all of us who were there.
The patient may have been the luckiest man on the face of the earth having two racing women who were also nurses speed on their bicycles to save him.
Last weekend, my wife and I rode with her racing team at team camp. Sunday, the ride was through San Onofre State beach along the ocean. This San Onofre state park connects San Clemente to Camp Pendleton, the marine base.
We turned around at the entry to the marine base and started back. There is a bike path along the ocean next to Highway 5. We approach the gate to San Onofre state park and after going through it, stop at the first rest room for a bio break.
A cyclist pulls up and states that a cyclist is down south of us on the pavement and is turning blue on the other side of the gate. There are two registered nurses that race on the team. I was listening to the cyclist talk processing what he was saying. By the time I realized what really was happening, the two nurses with a lead out from another racer were racing toward the downed cyclist.
When I got there, the women were performing chest compressions and rescue breathes and the patient was in cardiac arrest. It took 20 minutes for the paramedics to show up since this is not an easy area to access during which the nurses continued CPR. I assumed the cyclist was finished.
The result is nothing short of a miracle. The cyclist was taken to the hospital and put in ICU and placed in a coma. He body temperature was lowered to stem off neuro damage from the cardiac arrest.
Yesterday he had two stents put in his heart and is going home today and expected to make a complete recovery. He was 44 years old a father of two children and married to a wonderful wife for 18 years.
The statistics of surviving cardiac arrest when not in the hospital are very poor and if one survives generally there is heart and neurological damage. This result is simply stunning and obviously a result of having two professional nurses rush to his aid taking action immediately.
We have all been in the hospital and know how dedicated and committed nurses are to the patients. However, seeing them in action in the field was a lesson in how to save a life.
Besides the family, everyone at the scene was devastated. It is very hard to witness these events. Having such a good outcome is a great feeling for all of us who were there.
The patient may have been the luckiest man on the face of the earth having two racing women who were also nurses speed on their bicycles to save him.
02-11-17, 01:19 PM
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Here is a feel good story. I suspect that most have seen this on Facebook.
Last weekend, my wife and I rode with her racing team at team camp. Sunday, the ride was through San Onofre State beach along the ocean. This San Onofre state park connects San Clemente to Camp Pendleton, the marine base.
We turned around at the entry to the marine base and started back. There is a bike path along the ocean next to Highway 5. We approach the gate to San Onofre state park and after going through it, stop at the first rest room for a bio break.
A cyclist pulls up and states that a cyclist is down south of us on the pavement and is turning blue on the other side of the gate. There are two registered nurses that race on the team. I was listening to the cyclist talk processing what he was saying. By the time I realized what really was happening, the two nurses with a lead out from another racer were racing toward the downed cyclist.
When I got there, the women were performing chest compressions and rescue breathes and the patient was in cardiac arrest. It took 20 minutes for the paramedics to show up since this is not an easy area to access during which the nurses continued CPR. I assumed the cyclist was finished.
The result is nothing short of a miracle. The cyclist was taken to the hospital and put in ICU and placed in a coma. He body temperature was lowered to stem off neuro damage from the cardiac arrest.
Yesterday he had two stents put in his heart and is going home today and expected to make a complete recovery. He was 44 years old a father of two children and married to a wonderful wife for 18 years.
The statistics of surviving cardiac arrest when not in the hospital are very poor and if one survives generally there is heart and neurological damage. This result is simply stunning and obviously a result of having two professional nurses rush to his aid taking action immediately.
We have all been in the hospital and know how dedicated and committed nurses are to the patients. However, seeing them in action in the field was a lesson in how to save a life.
Besides the family, everyone at the scene was devastated. It is very hard to witness these events. Having such a good outcome is a great feeling for all of us who were there.
The patient may have been the luckiest man on the face of the earth having two racing women who were also nurses speed on their bicycles to save him.
Last weekend, my wife and I rode with her racing team at team camp. Sunday, the ride was through San Onofre State beach along the ocean. This San Onofre state park connects San Clemente to Camp Pendleton, the marine base.
We turned around at the entry to the marine base and started back. There is a bike path along the ocean next to Highway 5. We approach the gate to San Onofre state park and after going through it, stop at the first rest room for a bio break.
A cyclist pulls up and states that a cyclist is down south of us on the pavement and is turning blue on the other side of the gate. There are two registered nurses that race on the team. I was listening to the cyclist talk processing what he was saying. By the time I realized what really was happening, the two nurses with a lead out from another racer were racing toward the downed cyclist.
When I got there, the women were performing chest compressions and rescue breathes and the patient was in cardiac arrest. It took 20 minutes for the paramedics to show up since this is not an easy area to access during which the nurses continued CPR. I assumed the cyclist was finished.
The result is nothing short of a miracle. The cyclist was taken to the hospital and put in ICU and placed in a coma. He body temperature was lowered to stem off neuro damage from the cardiac arrest.
Yesterday he had two stents put in his heart and is going home today and expected to make a complete recovery. He was 44 years old a father of two children and married to a wonderful wife for 18 years.
The statistics of surviving cardiac arrest when not in the hospital are very poor and if one survives generally there is heart and neurological damage. This result is simply stunning and obviously a result of having two professional nurses rush to his aid taking action immediately.
We have all been in the hospital and know how dedicated and committed nurses are to the patients. However, seeing them in action in the field was a lesson in how to save a life.
Besides the family, everyone at the scene was devastated. It is very hard to witness these events. Having such a good outcome is a great feeling for all of us who were there.
The patient may have been the luckiest man on the face of the earth having two racing women who were also nurses speed on their bicycles to save him.
@Heathpack A week in the life of P-22, the big cat who shares Griffith Park with millions of people - Los Angeles Times Interesting story about a mountain lion living among humans.
The lion has a GPS collar such that he is tracked. However, he covers a lot of territory.
The lion has a GPS collar such that he is tracked. However, he covers a lot of territory.
https://twitter.com/mountainlionp22
02-15-17, 05:59 AM
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Owning an air cooled 911 (3.2 Litre Carrera in particular) has been a daydream from an early age!
With my wife passing away from cancer last year, I decided to stop dreaming and putting off owning one as you just don't know what could happen tomorrow! So I decided to start looking seriously a couple of months ago rather than keep putting it off.
End result was a flight to Western Australia weekend before last and the purchase of this Australian delivered 1984 3.2 Litre Carrera! It is just now waiting in the queue to get transported back East...
Owning an air cooled 911 (3.2 Litre Carrera in particular) has been a daydream from an early age!
With my wife passing away from cancer last year, I decided to stop dreaming and putting off owning one as you just don't know what could happen tomorrow! So I decided to start looking seriously a couple of months ago rather than keep putting it off.
End result was a flight to Western Australia weekend before last and the purchase of this Australian delivered 1984 3.2 Litre Carrera! It is just now waiting in the queue to get transported back East...
02-15-17, 06:20 AM
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Nice car @Dalai. Now that that's settled, when are you coming to America to ride bikes?
02-15-17, 08:36 AM
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@Dalai Great choice. We have had Porsches on and off over the years but purchased the Porsche Boxster when it came out in 1996. We have had a Boxster ever since and it is hard to believe that it has been 20 years. Time just flies.
02-15-17, 02:05 PM
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Nice car @Dalai. Now that that's settled, when are you coming to America to ride bikes?
Going be a lot of work to get my riding fitness up again, as still only riding commuting to and from work... Been filling my time doing everything and anything just to fill the day. Been rock climbing again, plus surfing. Even picked up a tennis racquet for the first time in~20 years and am playing social tennis with my brother and niece Sunday afternoons.
02-16-17, 08:43 AM
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Very cool car, @Dalai. Enjoy the hell out of it.
02-16-17, 01:19 PM
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Very cool car, @Dalai. Enjoy the hell out of it.
We picked up an older Boxster a few years ago. Fun car in the summer, nothing like a rag top in the mountains.
02-20-17, 09:56 AM
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Very cool car, @Dalai. Enjoy the hell out of it.
That car comes with a dilemma, however: does putting a bike rack on a 911 make it the ultimate play thing, or is it a sin against all that is holy?
Also think of HP this morning and wishing her rapid recovery.