Weekend Getaway II

I'm back from my family camp out. It was an awesome trip, but not without challenges. A little less than a quarter of the way there, I managed to sprain my ankle. With my bicycle pedals, I have to twist my foot to unlock the pedal from my foot. I think I somehow twisted my foot wrong. It didn't hurt until I got to the campground, then it made it almost impossible to walk. When I arrived, it was decided that I shouldn't ride home on that ankle, so arraignments were made for me to hitch a ride with a relative. At first I saw it as a defeat, but when I noticed my swollen ankle the next day, I decided they might be right after all. I also have a GPS with a heart rate monitor. My max heart rate for the ride was 176bpm. Not sure how to interpret the bpm.

The rest of my family thought I was sufficiently nuts to warrant therapy (hehe).

I did upload some photos of me and the "Mighty Mule", my name for my bike.

1 Comments

Understanding BPM

by Lars - 2010-07-24 12:07:51

Hi. Just thought I'd offer some advice on this one ... really you need an exercising heart rate ( or BPM - beats per minute ) in the training zone of say 70-85% of maximal heart rate for your age group. Now there are many many heart rate formulae out there and I have created a number of calculators to help people work this out back on my website at: www.cardiacathletes.org ... feel free to use these calculators ... it might be that you are fitter than your age group average and so the formula might not be accurate ... but the point is you start with a heart rate range based on some scientific research and not dangerous guess-work

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