Fall shows up a little late in our area, but makes up for it by lasting longer, sometimes even into January. So it was more summer-like here in September and early October, but now it's really starting to feel like autumn, a delightful time to be outdoors. We did a long group ride to the … Continue reading Nice Fall Riding →

Specialized Bicycles has its headquarters in Morgan Hill and has a nice museum on-site. My Tuesday riding group had visited it before in spring 2020, right before the Covid pandemic took off. We went again last Tuesday, and this time our guide was Robert Egger, who has been their creative director for years. He designs … Continue reading A Visit To The Specialized Museum →

http://www.Amazon.com/books I enjoyed this book by David Ryan. He lives in New Mexico and does volunteer work finding archaeological sites for the US Bureau of Land Management. So it is not surprising the book starts out with tales of his wanderings in his local area, finding important sites and artifacts including a Folsom Man arrowhead … Continue reading The Gentle Art of Wandering →

I've been enjoying multiple long easy rides. After some more research I realized that a long ride is good for my heart as long as the pace is not hard, because it lowers diastolic blood pressure a bit compared to resting. Diastolic, the lower number on a reading like 120/80, is the more important for … Continue reading Loving Fall Riding →

Clarence Bass has been a role model for me for healthy aging for about 25 years now. Recently some pictures of Clarence at 87 were posted on his website which are exciting because he certainly defies the stereotype of a frail elderly person. Like me, Clarence has worked around the limitations of aging, despite two … Continue reading Clarence Bass at 87! →

One of the things that keeps my grey cells active is learning all I can about medical conditions I have. So I've continued to research paravalvular leakage of the aortic valve with Google's Deep Research. So far I've asked it for an overview of the condition, for more details on treatment options, and for exercise … Continue reading More on Aortic Valve Leakage →

We've still been having hot weather lately, into the 90s F (low 30s C). But at least since the days are getting shorter it is cooling off nicely at night. I'm looking forward to it's being officially fall soon and hope the weather will start matching it. My riding has been pleasant because it is … Continue reading Waiting For Fall →

I mentioned in my last post that I decided to cut back my amount of exercise to what my Cardiologist actually thinks I'm doing. This works out to 90 minutes a day on average biking, with 3 upper body strength session of 30 minutes each per week. This still allows me to get in a … Continue reading Enjoying New Schedule →

A couple of years ago, my yearly echocardiogram showed a mild amount of leakage around the outside of my aortic valve replacement. This is a fairly common complication. (https://vivitrolabs.com/support/faqs/in-vitro-paravalvular-leakage-assessment-of-cardiac-valve-prostheses/) I have the condition shown in the middle, called paravalvular leakage, where blood flog leaks around the outside of the replacement valve, next to the wall … Continue reading Interesting News From Cardiologist →