Despite the drama surrounding the whole Lebron James story, I was still compelled to start my 36 hour ride at 6pm on Thursday, July 8th and complete the ride at approximately 7am on Saturday, July 10th at Fuel Sports Performance Training Center in Crest Hill, IL . Stats are: AHR: 90bpm; RPM[...]
Archive for the ‘Event Happenings’ Category
June 22nd, 2010 - 10:11 pm § in Event Happenings
24 Hour Marathon Ride for Charity and the Plank
Greetings! Much has been going on since my last post and with the summer solstice now upon us, I wanted to get down a few thoughts and updates. For starters, the pit crew party at the home of Leroy Keith on June 5th was a great time…i recently posted raw pics and an album of sorts w[...]
April 30th, 2010 - 2:05 pm § in Event Happenings
Medill News Service and Mac King
I was fortunate the other day to have a very nice chat w/Mac King, a reporter associated with the Medill News Service. He was interested in hearing my story so Matt Baron and I provided Mac with a bit of background material afterwhich Mac and I agreed to meet at X Sport in Naperville for [...][...]
April 14th, 2010 - 4:29 pm § in Event Happenings, George Thoughts
68 hours done!
George is doing very well! Earlier today, 2 walls were hit. In these 2 walls George invisioned himself in a white tunnel relaxed and was sailing through. These conscience visions help get George and his bike to be connected, operate as one! Sleep deprivation slowly manifests and causes George to get[...]
April 12th, 2010 - 8:53 am § in Event Happenings
Monday Morning Wakeup
Goodmorning World, Coming to you from Aurora Marketplace at rt 59 and 75th st. Streaming live via 95.9 the River. Came through the night and rounded the corner into Monday morning thanks to pace efforts with Alvin, who continues to get me to daylight. The night was great but a little slipper[...]
April 9th, 2010 - 1:52 pm § in Event Happenings
ESPN, Dr. Bob Weill and Naperville Sun
If you guys haven’t already seen it, our story was just picked up by ESPN and appears on their site…The article was posted just a short time ago. You can find it here: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=5068866. Or you can go to ESPN.com’s home page (www.espn.com) and click [...]
April 7th, 2010 - 9:46 pm § in Event Happenings
No Track Meet Today….
The days are really going by quickly now . It rained to day and my youngest Andy had asked me to go to his track meet today but it was cancelled due to the weather. Andy had called me last eve to remind me of the meet. It was close, right here in Plainfield so [...][...]
April 6th, 2010 - 10:59 pm § in Event Happenings, George Thoughts
The Sports Doctor, Pork Tenderloin and Chris….
The taper weeks have slowly slipped by me now with the hours on the bike being reduced drastically to a mere 6 or so hours this week prior to launch on Sunday, the 11th. The rest has done me well and i’m now craving the need to ride for hours like I’ve done so many [...][...]
March 21st, 2010 - 7:09 pm § in Event Happenings, Training Notes
Results of Taper Ride a New WR
Greetings! The long rides are now done! With some sentimentality yesterday, I drew to a close a very significant chapter in my training for the 30o hour ride in April. The Taper Ride was a mere 14 hour ride that started at 4am to 6pm on Saturday. The stats were as follows: AHR 90; AR[...]
March 11th, 2010 - 6:24 pm § in Event Happenings
Prep for 40 Hour Ride (Part II)
Thursday was indeed a rest day. Had clients this morning and managed to squeeze in an interview with Scott MacKay at 95.9 The River which aired sometime around 8:30am or so. Scott and I will chat again on the air probably Monday after the 40. Scott and I connected back in Nov when i was we[...]
