This is a quote from one of my assigned reading cardio textbooks: “…a strong emotion can lead to precipitous hypotension with syncope (i.e., fainting). Conditioned reflexes can also elicit cardiovascular responses. For example, it is possible, by reward conditioning, to train an animal to increase or to decrease its heart rate.” One more thing to […] more

Yesterday I rode. It’s been hot and humid here – much more humid than I can remember it being most summers. We may have started late, but Farley and I are getting plenty of heat training. I hope that each one of you, is at last once in your life blessed with as fun and […] more

School starts tomorrow (yes, I think it’s way early too…now accepting sympathy cards and cookies.) and while hopefully I’ll still be involved with the researcher and lab that I worked for over the summer, my major involvement in the lettuce project is done. Here’s a quick picture summary of Mel’s fantastic, awesome, let’s-repeat-this-annually, summer. The […] more

As you might have guessed these posts tend to go up when for some reason I won’t be able post something more substantial. In today’s case, my calves hurt (from riding in shorts), I’m still sore from working out Tuesday, I’ve had a migraine since yesterday, and then to top it off, when I was […] more

Remember the pack I bought? I used it on my fast paced ride that I wrote about yesterday. Bottom line?  It works GREAT. I didn’t even notice the pack, I carried it half full of water, allowing for plenty of sloshing.  Here’s the results: The good -It didn’t bounce-It didn’t slosh-It didn’t leak-I didn’t even […] more

I’ve bought a lot of stuff from Griffin’s tack over the years and so I was saddened to see this on Ridecamp: Henry (of Griffins Tack) suffered a stroke late last week and is back home now from the hospital, but will not be able to travel to any rides for the remainder of the […] more