Terminal Velocity Calculation: Air Density & Drag Coefficent

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Not a homework question as such, but I thought this was the best place to put it.

I'm trying to work out the terminal velocity of a falling object, say myself (57kg) at 1000m, I have the equation from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity but have no idea what the drag coefficient is or the density of air at that altitude. Does anyone know what these values are?
 
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Here are some typical values

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~vawter/PhysicsNet/Topics/Dynamics/Forces/DragCoeficientValues.html
 
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