A trike may be your ticket to fitness

Are you a  senior in Rideau Rockcliffe?

I know most eligible voters live with their partners in their own homes.  

With age comes sore hips and knees. Some also go with a wonky heart that requires a beta-blocker to keep in rhythm, but no faster than 80 bpm, even while exercising. 

Aerobic fitness is poor to terrible in Rideau Rockcliffe seniors. Always out of breath.

There is an alternative exercise which is all good but a bit expensive. Seniors can still pedal, with or without clip-in shoes on a exercise bike. And it shouldn't hurt. 

It can be boring, even with a TV or music.

You may want to consider a recumbent tricycle (2 front wheels, one back and a very comfortable reclined lounge seat).

 These are fast, fun and easy on the joints. They are not “Grandma’s tricycle”.

Further, an “E-assist motor”can be added. To make it easier?. I have one and love it. My fitness is actually pretty good. . Things are looking good for me and they could look better for you.

For those with total knee replacement you may find your knee more normal in feeling and operating with recumbent cycling after 5 weeks when you can both make a full rotation of the crank and get up from the low seating position.

For those with balance issues you have Triking to prevent falls.

Trikes can be ellaborate with a full suspension models. 

You are never too old to exercise and the truth is that you should exercise like your life depends on it...because it does; the trick is finding something you enjoy and which does not hurt your body.

Gotta Go - any politician who fails to provide the basic human services

 

Gotta Go, in life and in death.

I recently travelled to the world's most populus city, Tokyo, Japan. There are more public washrooms on a single block near the Shibuya crossing than there are in all of Ottawa.
And further, if you did find a public washroom in Ottawa, chances are good it would be locked or have no hot water, no heat, dirty, graffittied, no light - worse than an outhouse.
Why, in Ottawa we accept this as public infrastructure is a mystery to me.

Let me make this plain. The way a city and community treats its citizens is the true mark of its character.

Its not about Ottawa Senators, Landsdowne or the market, its not about diversity  or bilingualism.

The provision of basic public sanitation is the most fundamental and basic of all civic services.
Are there worries of the expense to clean and maintain them? Folks you are going to pay in so many other ways if you do not provide basic rest room service.
Some cities charge a small fee, others in Japan provide clean, graffitti free wahrooms, literally in the middle of nowhere, these have warm, hot and cold water with electronically controlled bidets.

What are we, mouth breathers?

Anyone that choses to ignore this problem in Ottawa deserves the stockade, forget about re election.