Wheee, I'm a cyclist again!

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Marlene Blanshay said:

Needless to say it'll be a while before I'm back to where
I was, but it was just so great to be out on the road! The
weather is also cooperating, supposed to warm up at the
end of the week to the low 70s this weekend! The first
really nice day of the spring and I won't miss it! Wheee!
Not to mention that I need some sun. I look like something
that died and was dug up.

I'm glad you're back on your bike where you belong.

I've been resuscitating my bike tan for the last couple of
days, too.

I guess you've got lots of lost (riding) time to make up
for, now. Enjoy!

- Tom

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"Tom Keats" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In article <[email hidden]>,

Marlene Blanshay said:

Needless to say it'll be a while before I'm back to
where I was, but it

was

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just so great to be out on the road! The weather is also
cooperating, supposed to warm up at the end of the week
to the low 70s this weekend!

The

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first really nice day of the spring and I won't miss it!
Wheee! Not to mention that I need some sun. I look like
something that died and was

dug

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up.

I'm glad you're back on your bike where you belong.

I've been resuscitating my bike tan for the last couple of
days, too.

I guess you've got lots of lost (riding) time to make up
for, now. Enjoy!

Well not that much lost time- april is iffy around here and
it's been a crappy april. THe good weather is starting this
week, looks like I missed most of knickers weather and go
right into shorts! Although it still can be plenty cool in
the mornings.

It is indeed great to be back after triple bypass surgery in
the end of February. I did a five miler Thursday and a ten
miler on Friday South of Boston. Last year I was doing some
sprint triathlons, this year I'm happy to do ten miles.

I'm curious- I know heart disease isn't always for the
unhealthy but I wonder if you know what caused yours? If you
were doing sprint marathons I would assume you were in great
shape right?

Thanks

Chris "Stephanie" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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It is indeed great to be back after triple bypass surgery
in the end of February. I did a five miler Thursday and a
ten miler on Friday South of Boston. Last year I was doing
some sprint triathlons, this year I'm happy to do

ten

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miles.

"Stephanie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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It is indeed great to be back after triple bypass surgery
in the end of February. I did a five miler Thursday and a
ten miler on Friday South of Boston. Last year I was doing
some sprint triathlons, this year I'm happy to do

ten

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miles.

OMG, triple bypass!

IT looks like we had our surgeries around the same time, and
mine was also pretty serious, since it was an emergency.
However, I imagine with bypass that it's important for you
to get moving as soon as you can, for the purpose of
circulation. How long was it before you were able to get out
and on the bike?

It's enough for me to be on my bike at last and every time
I've been going on longer rides, but the weather hasn't
been great so I haven't built up the miles. Still, I am
going to aim for a metric at the end of the month on the
long weekend! Before long you'll be back to normal. I know
one guy who had quadruple bypass and is doing triathlons
again, although it took a while. The only thing is he
worries about crashing, because blood thinners make you
bleed like crazy!

Did you ever hear of Jim Fixx? He wrote the book on running
in the late 70's that got everyone out jogging. He dropped
dead while running a few years back because of severely
blocked arteries. My problem was also blockage in three
arteries. One 95% blocked, the other two over 75% blocked.
I'm 58 and have a family history of heart disease. I was
lucky I got tested when the problem first manifested itself.

"Chris" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I'm curious- I know heart disease isn't always for the
unhealthy but I wonder if you know what caused yours? If
you were doing sprint marathons

I

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would assume you were in great shape right?

Thanks

Sometimes it's congenital and fitness has nothing to do
with it, except that it may slow down the disese. I'm
assuming chris isn't that old, so it sounds like something
that runs in the family. My father was never overweight, he
exercised, and hadn't smoked in 35 years, but he had bypass
in his 60s. And his sister, mother and aunt all had the
same thing.They were all thin, and non smokers, although my
great aunt had been a smoker long ago. ANd all had bypass!
Needless to say, it concerns me that someday I'll have the
same thing so I check the cholesterol. But the way I
understand it, if someone in your family had bypass in
their 60s, it's not as much of an inherited risk- but let's
say my father was 45,then that would increase my risk. OF
course, diet back then was different and people ate more
fat, but some congenital heart conditions aren't only about
fitness or smoking.

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Did you ever hear of Jim Fixx? He wrote the book on
running in the late 70's that got everyone out jogging. He
dropped dead while running a few years back because of
severely blocked arteries. My problem was also blockage in
three arteries. One 95% blocked, the other two over 75%

blocked.

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I'm 58 and have a family history of heart disease. I was
lucky I got

tested

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when the problem first manifested itself.

Also dave Letterman. Remember when he had his bypass? He was
only about 52. His dad died very young from a heart attack.
Heart disease is the big thing in my family to. EVeryone
should get tested anyways!

I don't take blood thinners but am concerned about dumping
the bike and injuring the clips that are holding the sternum
together. I have been riding my hybrid and letting the Trek
5200 sit idle.