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This Sunday, Donate Your Fitness to Saving Tiny Hearts
Although American Heart Month has come and gone, it’s never far from the hearts and minds of all the people affected by heart ailments. While I tend to focus on heart disease and preventing your loved ones from suffering … Continue reading
Heart Month Ends on Sad Note for One Celebrity (and 1099 others)
Like nearly everyone else, I was surprised to hear that Davy Jones died of a heart attack yesterday at the age of 66. My mind instantly returned to childhood days happily watching reruns of The Monkees and the occasional Marsha-Brady-has-a-crush-on-Davy-Jones … Continue reading
14 Hours and 14 Aspirin – How NOT To Survive A Heart Attack!
Today I celebrate my third birthday. Yes, you read that right. T-h-i-r-d. I didn’t mean to type thirty (but it sure would be nice to return to those days of relative youth). Nor is it a typo for forty third. … Continue reading
So Much Great Heart News This Month!
I’m a bad heart attack survivor. No, I haven’t fallen off the wagon and gone on a Little Debbie’s and Mountain Dew bender. I’ve just been so preoccupied with my job and Congress’ attack on bicycling funding that I have … Continue reading
February is American Heart Month
American Heart Month kicks off today, February 1, 2012, with the State of Women’s Health webinar at 4:30pm CST. You can join AHA CEO Nancy Brown and Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius by pre-registering at the included link. Friday, February 3rd … Continue reading
Close Encounters Happen on the Bike Path
I’m pretty sure he saw me coming. I’m certain he wasn’t expecting to see a cyclist in the middle of the afternoon on an early January day. But I was rather hard to miss as I sat tall atop the … Continue reading
Bicycling Book Review: Bars Across America
If you’ve ever daydreamed about riding a bicycle from coast to coast across the United States, you may want to pick up a copy of John Greenfield’s Bars Across America before you saddle up. This is no cautionary tale. It’s … Continue reading
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More 60 Second Cycling Stories
In an effort to keep my readers up-to-date on interesting cycling news, I have a frequent feature on my Chicago Now blog entitled 60 Second Cycling Stories. Here is the latest update. Watch for a whole new blog site dedicated … Continue reading
It’s Not Spring, But I’ll Take It!
I don’t think I’ve ever ridden my bike in January. Once the temperature drops below forty or the first snowflakes hit the ground (whether they stick or not), my bikes are cleaned, lubed, spit-polished and hung on the wall like … Continue reading
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Tagged Paul Douglas Trail, Winter Cycling
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Sixty Second Cycling Stories Week in Review
As the snow fell upon the Chicago area this past Thursday, I resigned myself once again to a winter of merely daydreaming about bicycling. Gone was the disbelief of mild winter riding and the confusion of all that witnessed the … Continue reading →