HypoActive

5 Days to go, this is the last `Update' you'll get from me.

Here I am slogging away on the hills, getting in some last minute training for the Ride for a Cure. I've been putting in about 250k's per week on the bike and have worn out my favourite riding niks, gone through a bottle of sunscreen and a bottle of fake tan. :-(  Yes it's true - every bit of colour you see on my skin, comes out of a bottle!

The statistics from this ride are: Distance of 118.4 kilometres; 5 hours and 4minutes ride time;  Average Heart rate of 126 bpm, maximum HR of 157bpm; In zone (fat reduction HR) for 3 hours 20 minutes; Burnt off 2111 calories; Max speed of 58kph, Avg spd of 23.8kph; and for those of you who are pedal spinners, my avg cadence was 80, with a max cadence of 108. I must have had the pump adjusted properly as I didn't have any `Hypos', and only had to eat jelly snakes on the last 12k home, just to keep me turning those pedals!

This weekend is the last stage of my training for Saturday the 20th. I'll do a `recovery' ride tomorrow - about 40 minutes just to stretch out the leg muscles, then the bike goes into St. Kilda Cycles for a service and they will pack it into the bike box ready for me to pick up on Friday morning and head out to the airport. In the meantime I'll ride my `shopping bike' a 2004 model Great Vic bike.

It's been nerve wracking watching the reports of the hot weather & fires in SA.  I'm really hoping we will have some nice moderate weather in the mid - high 20's for the ride day.

Thank you for your support - I deeply appreciate it.

If you'd like to make a further donation or encourage someone else to donate, just go to www.jdrf.org.au/ride and follow the links to `Sponsor a Participant' and type in my full name Catherine Stephensen.

Best wishes

Cath Stephensen

On January 19-21 Cath will be undertaking the Ride to Cure Diabetes Challenge for JDRF.  The ride covers 160km in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, but to participate all riders must raise funds supporting research into a cure for type 1 diabetes.

As our only HypoActive representative in the 2007 event, please support Cath in her fundraising quest.  Click on the link below to see her fundraising page: http://ride.jdrf.org.au/teamParticipant.asp?participantID=225

Or go to the ride page www.jdrf.org.au/ride, click on 'sponsor a rider' and search for 'Catherine Stephensen'

Go Cath!