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Yeah, my knees and shins can handle it. I've got a couple routes I do, one ten and one twenty miles. I'm not just blazing fast because of the lungs, but I see clear progress.
I like to go from Dublin Coffman to Glacier Ridge, often through Indian Run and Red Preserve past Karrer Middle, then there's a winding path that goes North forever and a day. Back Hyland Croy to Muirfield, Brand back to Coffman. Pretty chill, good shade in parts, and trafficked enough that if I have an emergency someone will be by.
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Jeese!
Went from bed-ridden to cycling 20 miles?
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
Well that's the benefit of a lot of work up over the last several months. Only started doing twenties in the last month or so and I don't think I'll expand much beyond that.
Also, I'm probably only averaging like 14mph or so. Not one of the serious tour guys around these parts.
After the heart attack I had little choice but to find a way to get low impact cardio, and this has been a good choice.
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And not cocaine, lol, but the cocktail of drugs I take these days to keep my heart from exploding, my flare ups from being too severe, and my sense of well being stable enough to do anything is formidable.
But to hell with it, better living through chemistry.
But to hell with it, better living through chemistry.
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We still have to address two factors, a vocal cord issue and if my heart rate breaks 170 I start to break down quickly as I can't oxygenate efficiently enough to meet the demand -- but it's all about knowing and respecting boundaries while the rheumo stuff is mostly behaving.
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They think Aug 2014. One for sure, maybe two (the suspected second when I moved from FL back to OH in ... um ... 2004?). 2014 was first thought to be a stroke, but those symptoms turned out to be vasculitis cutting off blood supply to my brain -- which is better. That was downgraded to a suspected TIA and the heart stuff was ultimately determined to be an NSTEMI. My BP floated around 220/160 when I was first taken in and didn't come down below 200/140 for a couple days. Now I'm generally around 120/80, so that helps. Thanks Norvasc.
With toxic exposure Lupus/Sclero(CREST), strokes and MIs are the #1 gotchas even before cancer.
But truly, this is the most managed my shit has been in over a decade.
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The flip side of all of this is Social Security has cut me loose, so no insurance as of 11/1. But I've got some irons in the fire that should be sustainable even if I have a setback. Not OH pols, I haven't completely ruled it out but I'm not actively pursuing OH-HD-21.
Super busy Summer.
Super busy Summer.
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Not when I'm driving through them. It is... Of course difficult not to use more than one lane in a roundabout driving a 5500lb truck through it at 80mph. That's more for the Honda fits. I give cyclists plenty of room of course.
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I stay off the roads as much as possible. One, exhaust is a respiratory trigger, but two, Dublin has like 120 miles of bike paths. I mean, there are options that don't involve people looking at my ass while I'm plodding along.
I consider it a public service to stick to the paths.
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I ride on the road and hate traffic circles.
Having said that. I'll be honest having seen no real other updates I was concerned your minimal presence here was a bad sign, so this news is an extremely pleasant surprise.
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