Educational Talks Rolling Along

Held another installment of my "Getting Ready for the Dempsey Challenge" educational talks the other night.  This was the fourth in a series of six talks that I'm doing throughout the summer at Central Maine Medical Center.  The topics that the presentation series include:

April 16th

     Bike, Equipment, and Fitting

May 14th

     Commuting, Rules of the Road

June 11th

     Cycling Aches and Pains

July 9th

     Rehabilitation Exercises and Cross Training

August 13th

     Nutrition

September 10th

     Mechanical Care of the Bike

This past week I got into the heart of the discussions covering "Rehabilitation and Cross Training".  The talk built off of the aches and pains discussed in the previous talk.

I finally got some good attendance thanks to the assistance of the communications department at the hospital (I have a LOT to learn when it comes to marketing and putting myself out there!).  It was great to see that I had new faces, returning attendants, and some medical/ fitness professionals come hear what I had to say.  Since the first few events had a low turnout I'm working with the Dempsey Center to possibly come up some alternative dates to go over the talks again.

As the Dempsey Challege gets closer I'm hoping the interest in the next few topics will be even greater.  Nutrition is hard- not only the science behind it, but more than anything else there is a lot of personal preference.  So I'm excited to offer some insight on this, particularly in relation to nutrition for an endurance event.  While the last talk is currently titled as going over mechanical care of the bike I may just leave that open ended for folks to ask whatever particular questions they have just before the Dempsey weekend.  Either way, enjoying the talks and glad I got back into doing these after a year off.