Stress Test - June 14, 2007

 

I loved teaching for 33 years.
When I said I would pedal across the USA, my classes helped me raise $13,500.

Stress Test

(June 14, 2007)

 

My wife is a worrier. So I can’t just leap aboard my bicycle and ride. Today I have to take a stress test. 

I teach middle school. I know I have stress.

Part of it comes down to age: 58. My weight isn’t too good, either: 190 on a bad day and a little under six feed tall. Eating habits are abominable. Twix bars for breakfast, four cookies for lunch. Bad cholesterol an issue.

So maybe a stress test isn’t a bad idea.

I plan to ride my bicycle over to Jewish Hospital in Kenwood in a few minutes. It’s a little more than nine miles. I do find, without exception, that when I exercise my stress abates.

I recommend that middle school teachers exercise regularly.

Two legs will do the trick.

 

*I’ll note right here that on the cross-country trip to follow, I carried all my own gear. I liked that because it gave me total flexibility to stop and camp wherever I wanted. And if I was really beat, I found a motel.