D-Day minus One, (Departure DAy minus one)
I have never done a blog before but I will do the best I can. I have been told to download pictures, download the route, tell something interesting that happens ( not including how much food or how many meals I eat each day!) and don't go on and on about how beautiful the mountains are. I have trained for a number of months now and feel somehwere between terribly excited and a bit apprehensive- kind of like going to college freshman year. My son, Aaron, actually got up at 6 AM to take me to the airport. Not bad for a recent high school graduate- getting up early to send the old man off. For people that have asked what did I do to train for this you can go to the website www.trainingpeaks.com and put in the user name: jpress and the password: password and you can see the schedule that Rob Kelley my trainer from Training Peaks put together for me. The two maps that are below on the blog are courtesy of Garmin and LaSalle Bank. They set me up with the GPS system and technology that allows even me to download the course and all the data from my bike to the blog site, assuming I don't mess it up. The technology is great and allows anyone to look at the route, the elevations, etc. as well as the route on Google Earth. I will try to download the data every few days or when a computer is available. Up early tomorrow, taking the ferry to Vallejo and onward.
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Ride for Rehab Partners
About the Ride For Rehab
Dr. Joel Press of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC)will be traveling on a 3,861 mile cross-country bike ride from San Francisco to Boston on June 12, 2007.
The goal of this ride is to raise awareness of the critical role that physiatry and rehabilitation play in restoring function and improving quality of life for all patients, and the geographical disparities in Medicare coverage for inpatient rehabilitation.
Click here to download the Ride for Rehab donation form
The goal of this ride is to raise awareness of the critical role that physiatry and rehabilitation play in restoring function and improving quality of life for all patients, and the geographical disparities in Medicare coverage for inpatient rehabilitation.
Click here to download the Ride for Rehab donation form
About Dr. Joel Press
- Medical Director, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Spine & Sports Rehabilitation Center
- Doctor Joel Press graduated from the University of Michigan in 1980 with a B.S. Degree-with distinction, Microbiology. He received his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1984, and did his Internship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School in 1984-85. He completed his Residency at Northwestern University Medical School, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago in 1988. He has been an attending physician at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago since 1988 and in 1989 he founded and directed the Sports Rehabilitation Program at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. In December of 1994, Dr. Press was instrumental in the opening of the Center for Spine, Sports, and Occupational Rehabilitation, with Dr. Press as its Medical Director. He has published numerous articles, edited a textbook, chaired numerous courses, and been invited to lecture many times. Dr. Press is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Medical School.
7 comments:
hi Dr. Press, what a great man you are !!! salute !!!
Dr. Press,
I wish you much success in your ride across America for a very worthy cause. God speed.
We missed you at Big Bowl!
You rock Dr. Press
from SSRC team
Hey Joel; Hope all is well. It is the weekend and you know around here we are all excited about that. I hope your adventure is going as planned. Stay safe and let us know how you are getting along when you can. I guess you know how much your patients miss you too. Zee
Hi Joel,
Best of luck on your great planned trip. A big hello to all the family and we'll be following you on your progress across the US. Plenty of liquids, leg massages and a bum cushion may be required.
Jim, Sheila, Niall, Phelim & Aideen O'Hagan in Ireland
Hi Joel,
Best of luck on your great planned trip across the US. The only spare tyres will be rubber after all that!
Jim, Sheila, Niall, Phelim & Aideen O'Hagan in Ireland
My brother is curretnly on a crosss country bike trip from New York to San Diego to raise money and awareness for cancer research. His group's web page is
www.Illini4000.org
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