Did you know that the average animal life lasts a billion heartbeats? The larger the animal; the slower the heart rate; the longer the average lifespan. Mice, four years. Horses, 40 years. Blue whales, 80 years.
Humans live an average of 65 years but we lengthen our lives by slowing our heart rates through exercise.
This is the kind of thing you learn while writing a book about biking in NYC. Or when you spend a few minutes outside a deli in midtown with paramedic and die-hard bike commuter Eli Friedman.
Eli won our 4th "Where Is This?" contest and BIKE NYC caught up with him last week to deliver his Continuum Cycles gift card. Great to meet you Eli!
We caught up with our 6th winner Margarita Morales a few days later at Cake Shop to deliver her Seagull hip bag. She was catching up on some writing after a day of work at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island.
Margarita lives in Newark, NJ and runs a blog called Star Beat Music. She recently took third place in the Brick City Bike Collective Egg-mazing Scavenger Hunt. Go Margarita!
