Chris Hipp 1961 - 2009

This might be old news, but I just found out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/te...ng/17hipp.html

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This might be old news, but I just found out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/te...ng/17hipp.html

We take even our relatively-good health for granted. We make a fuss
about asthma or a touch of arthritis but dang, some of us just fall over
dead once in a while. In Chris's case, there's a connection between the
early-morning Tuesday ride (which he was on his way to when he died) and
my Tuesday/Thursday ride, since a few of the guys on my ride do the
early-morning ride first (my ride doesn't start until a reasonable
7:45am). His death, and Steve Larsen's, for a very short moment in time,
had us thinking about our own mortality, talking about the movie
"Logan's Run" and wondering how much time we had left. Briefly. Then we
went back to beating each other up.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

wrote:
This might be old news, but I just found out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/te...ng/17hipp.html

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What is it about cycling and premature death? The more intense the
cycling, the earlier they go.

Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:
wrote:
This might be old news, but I just found out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/te...ng/17hipp.html


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What is it about cycling and premature death? The more intense the
cycling, the earlier they go.


I tend to think that there's not too much research on this. I think
our perception is that someone who's fit and does regular aerobic
exercise is "protected" from cardiovascular disease. This may be
somewhat true for coronary artery disease, but there's no reason this
would be so for (for example) undiagnosed cardiac arrhythmias. It's
also true that for someone with a hypercholesterolemia that aerobic
exercise may not be enough to forestall coronary artery disease. In
these cases, severe workloads of the kind a cyclist takes on may be
enough to cause trouble.
What I'd like to see is some research on high-load aerobic exercise and
heart-valve disease. I know of many cyclists with mitral regurgitation
(my brother had surgery this year), and I've never heard that aerobic
exercise would be protective--in fact I can imagine that it would put
additional stresses on a structure with limited ability to withstand
these stresses.

Steve

On Sep 18, 8:37*pm, "
wrote:
This might be old news, but I just found out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/te...omputing/17hip...

sad. interestingly some guys i know from school went to work at d-
wave.

On Sep 19, 3:48*am, Crescentius Vespasianus
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wrote:
This might be old news, but I just found out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/te...omputing/17hip...

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What is it about cycling and premature death? *The more intense the
cycling, the earlier they go.

Autistic ****head,

It's one thing to post idiotic opinions with nothing
to back them up. We all do that here on rbr.

It's another thing entirely to pop up, like you do,
every time a rider dies and make remarks that sound
like gloating. Maybe you think you are making a
deep philosophical observation about the nature of
racing, but do you ever think about what a ghoul
this makes you look like?

Ben

for a long time I've held the belief that it's about free radicals

cyclists create these in two ways, intense exercise and hyper caloric
diets.

the candle that burns brightest...

but i've been wrong before

Anton Berlin wrote:
for a long time I've held the belief that it's about free radicals

JFT agrees with you.