For fans of sport in America, the coming week is all about fast-twitch muscles, aggression and unapologetic showmanship. The Super Bowl has grown de facto into an American holiday. I get this. I watch football; the athleticism and intensity are compelling. But in our fair city, the next week witnesses a celebration of sport of […]
Category: Cyclocross
Cyclocross-related topics of the DrJohnM blog
You may find this hard to believe but I really don’t look at my site’s stats much. In fact, just today I discovered that WordPress has a feature that ranks posts by views. I’m not going to give you my Top Ten just by ranking. Rather, I’ll mix in some of my favorites and those […]
As I plodded along the cyclcocross track today a heckler shouted: “Hey Mandrola….blog about this.” By ‘this,’ I can only assume he meant how cool our sport is. He surely wasn’t heckling a doctor about a lackluster performance. Alright then. Mr. Heckler said blog on. —- A few weeks ago I received a tweet asking […]
Hi all, I’m going to take my own advice tonight. I’ve got an early meeting and some big cases to do tomorrow. Good sleep forms one of the four legs of the table of health. Plus, it feels so good. Seriously, try it some time. It’s a potent anti-inflammation elixir. I’ll leave with you this […]
Hi all, I wrote two posts this week for the Courier-Journal’s online health portal, In the Prime. The first was titled, Can an insurance company improve our health? In this post I use the tragic story of a patient who stopped taking an important medicine because of a high copay. Two recent medical studies have […]
A good friend sent me a post from the now famous BikeSnobNYC. Its title was “Why so serious?†The famous one was dissing the over-seriousness of amateur bike racers. Talk about taking the easy trail. Making fun of amateur racers? Next thing you know, he will be calling all masters bike racers dentists. I am […]
(Sorry folks, I published this post last night but with the wrong date. As we say in the EP lab: “rookie mistake.”) For many bike racers, the end of summer marks the beginning of cyclocross season. So it was tonight, an unusually perfect August evening, that the Louisville (KY) cycling community enjoyed its first cyclocross […]
This weekend’s Ohio Valley Cyclocross finale marked our family’s end to another great season of bike racing. The drenching rains made for true CX conditions. There’s just something about racing a bike through ankle deep mud that’s inherently uplifting. Math folks call such a common denominator. This pic of teammate and pal, Rachel Fagerburg sums […]
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Whenever someone asks seriously why I keep a blog, it’s a struggle to find an answer. I really do not know exactly. It helps me learn…that’s true. (And I worship learning.) It makes me think about action verbs…No doubt. That people email and say that my words helped them…Yes, for sure. That I like writing. […]
The decision to write about exercise-related topics on Wednesdays wasn’t a coincidence. Across the globe, for cyclists’ with jobs, Wednesdays are frequently the training day. It’s that way here. So it is that I often write a Wednesday post immediately after what you could call a robust ride. Some say spirited, or heavy. You get […]
This week’s edition of Cycling Wednesday will be brief on science and data. It’s been a busy week for our family–in a very special way. (Disclosure: we are a cycling-mad kin.) Through some fortunate turn of events, Staci and I, and our best friends were asked to host a group of professional Belgian Cyclocross racers […]