well, it was so HOT out last night (never cooled down!!) that we slept poorly so instead of leaving at 530 in the morning, we left a little after 7. We were so afraid it would be another scorcher that we decided to only ride around the south end of Lake Washington (about 20-25 miles) instead of the 65-70 we had originally planned.
12 miles into the ride we noticed that it wasn't clearing up. It turned out that we had a gentle cloud cover for the whole ride.. and it's 82 now and we just got back from a 44 mile ride. ALong the back roads that we usually take there was a man was in his car with all the windows down. He was about our age (I thought) and asked us if we knew what street we were on... We didn't. so we had to go up the hill about 1/4 of a mile to a street sign. as we rode we realized the man looked really scared, so we got the name of the street and went back down the hill. HE WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK! all that first aide/CPR training classes i've taken finally did someone some good. My husband and i comforted him and got 911 to find him (he had told them he was on the highway offramp.. not quite!! so if we hadn't come, they might nave never found him!!! he was in pain and hyperventilating.. I finally called 911 and asked why no one was there yet ...they were looking for him on the highway (405!) the lady asked me how old he was... I said, around 50... he pipes up "I'm 72!" We called his wife and his daughter and just kept him company while we waited...
Well, the ambulances and the police cars all came and bicyclists were passing left and right, all panicked because they saw our tandem down on the road by the car... they all thought WE were hurt.
When they had him safely in the aide car, and his car all locked up safe, we left and continued our ride, a little less cheerful, but comforted to know that we might have saved his life.
The sun just started to pop out a little in our last 4 miles (ascent) to home.
phew. glad that one's done!
