Support Cath's Ride to Cure Diabetes
Update Cath's Ride Report
Update 16th January link to Waverley Leader article (pdf)
Update 15th January
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!
One of the huge advantages to me in maintaining a training routine is
the benefit to my health. Some of you will know about my love affair
with my insulin pump. The Pump became part of my life in August this
year and allows me much more flexibility in my training schedule and
greatly improved Blood Glucose Levels. It has replaced the need for 4
needles a day and is one of the very real benefits of research that you
are helping to fund. The next photo shows me with my beloved pump. Gee
I think I need to do something about that helmet, it looks so daggy!
I'm getting really excited. I picked the Qantas bike box up from the
airport on Thursday, and it started to hit home, how close the big day
is.
I rode 50k of hills on Saturday up through North Ringwood and then had a
delayed `Hypo' midafternoon while out shopping with Kristin. I'd
forgotten to take my jelly snakes with me and had to eat the beautiful
almond and honey biscuits I'd bought to have for afternoon tea. On
Sunday I did a 120k ride down to Mornington and back which started at
6am in the morning.
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!
