Lynne, Glad the surgery got all the Cancer. Lunginsam, There have been much good advice and food for thought. From my experiences, after a winter of little riding, I begin commuting (on 16 miles round trip) Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays giving me days off in between. When I have built up to 5 days, I try to take it slow and easy early in the week for a few weeks. All the best, Erl
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 2:00:32 PM UTC-4, Lynne Fitz wrote: > > I don't think you are overdoing it. But I am a randonneur (and just > turned 60), so perhaps I have a different ruler. > > The two times my riding started going all wrong - annoying gradual decline > over a year or so - it turned out to be a Serious Health Problem, which my > GP did not catch, either time. First one, back in 2009, it took me a good > 5 or 6 months after treatment (no surgery, nasty drugs for 24 weeks) to get > back to riding a 200k; the next year was my first SR. Most recently, my > riding performance had been declining over a couple of years. I had cancer > surgery in February (got it all, no subsequent treatment needed); just > managed to pull off a 100k this last Sunday. (Still feeling it :-) ) Not > sure when I'll get up to 200k distance. Later this summer, maybe. > > Short story long - if you feel nothing should be wrong, yet it is, and > your doctor says nothing is wrong, you are fine, which is what I got both > times - get a second opinion. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
