too much cycling might be bad for your health

[ElFenix]

doh

 

[Fausto]

Oh well. He lived a lot longer than he would have had he not started cycling after the bypass surgery.

 

[radioouman]

QUite an accomplishment.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Fausto
Oh well. He lived a lot longer than he would have had he not started cycling after the bypass surgery.

dude do you have an alarm or something?!?

 

[StageLeft]

Sounds to me like a quadruple-bypass surgery might be bad for your health.

I submit to you that if this guy biked back across the country he'd have lived longer...it seems that when he stoped cycling he died. CYCLE 4 LIFE.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Fausto
Oh well. He lived a lot longer than he would have had he not started cycling after the bypass surgery.

dude do you have an alarm or something?!?

I have a sixth sense for threads related to cycling and/or thongs.

 

[nakedfrog]

Man, that sucks.

 

[Paulson]

Eh, I know a guy who's like 63 who bikes like 30 miles every morning and has been biking for a long ass time...

He's healthier than a lot of people I know...

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

I rode in the hotter than hell one year and a guy keeled over at the finish line...

 

[mercanucaribe]

Pat Miller, a retired Anderson University health professor who also was among about 30 people on the cross-country ride, said Bebout was taking medication for his heart and for arthritis.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
I rode in the hotter than hell one year and a guy keeled over at the finish line...

This isn't all that uncommon for centuries. People often bite off more than they can chew and then don't hydrate/eat properly on the ride.

 

[DrPizza]

I'd love to bike across the country one of these summers. Which way is best? Cali to East Coast? Or East Coast to Cali?
The only problem is I don't want to do it with one of those large organized groups... I want to set the pace. I good days, I'd prefer to just keep going... with a strong tail wind, why not pump out an extra 50 miles. With a strong head wind - and if I'm in an awesome location, why not spend the day sight seeing/recovering?

Anyway, I doubt it was the ride that killed him. Probably more of a coincidence that the press picked up on.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
I rode in the hotter than hell one year and a guy keeled over at the finish line...

This isn't all that uncommon for centuries. People often bite off more than they can chew and then don't hydrate/eat properly on the ride.

Yeah i did that once after a nice long mountain biking ride and 4.5 hours later, at the end of the ride, I puked, started to shake, couldn't drive my car, and I managed to get a glass of water in me, a shower, and then take a nap. After that I felt a lot better and went and had a nice big dinner.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
I rode in the hotter than hell one year and a guy keeled over at the finish line...

This isn't all that uncommon for centuries. People often bite off more than they can chew and then don't hydrate/eat properly on the ride.

*cough*marathon*cough*

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
I rode in the hotter than hell one year and a guy keeled over at the finish line...

This isn't all that uncommon for centuries. People often bite off more than they can chew and then don't hydrate/eat properly on the ride.

*cough*marathon*cough*

 

[Kelemvor]

That first line is misleading..

A man who pedaled 2,400 miles across the country after bypass surgery had given him a second chance at life died of a heart attack one day after completing the trip.

Makes it sound like he got out of the hospital and hopped on his bike....

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I'd love to bike across the country one of these summers. Which way is best? Cali to East Coast? Or East Coast to Cali?
The only problem is I don't want to do it with one of those large organized groups... I want to set the pace. I good days, I'd prefer to just keep going... with a strong tail wind, why not pump out an extra 50 miles. With a strong head wind - and if I'm in an awesome location, why not spend the day sight seeing/recovering?

Anyway, I doubt it was the ride that killed him. Probably more of a coincidence that the press picked up on.

i think you would want to go from west to east to have prevailing winds behind you.