I haven't posted for a while as I had decommissioned the electric trike and trailer and sold them on without the heinzmann. I had kept my original electric mountain bike in reserve, although Steve at electricmountainbikes has it advertised for sale for me.
The use of the bikes and trikes over the last 4 1/2 years have aided my recovery from a serious horse riding accident no end. They have helped me gain strength, fitness and confidence. The added advantage are the friends throughout the community that I have made, Presteigne being a real high point over the years.
Having turned 50 and with an active 7 year old cycling daughter, I began a return to unpowered two wheelers last year. I have been cycling with her on the road to school, a journey of 2 miles. She is a strong, confident and observant cyclist and has been racing with our local club. This has helped me to enjoy my own adventures and improved fitness. I pressed into use my 1990's Trek 820 hard tail mtb, fitted with touring tyres, but soon realised that I wanted to go further and faster.
I could feel the lure of a new bike on the horizon, but being older and slightly less impetuous, I set myself some goals fitness wise. This also included doing some longer and faster rides with a sociable local cycling club. I was making good progress, but a hernia op in April slowed me down for just a few weeks. Determined not to lose my new found fitness, I was back riding after a few days, although not putting too much effort in until a few weeks had passed.
I decided to bite the bullet and buy a new light weight road bike, and here it is....
What a ride! Distance and speed came easily, well 'ish' and I even made the move to riding in bib shorts. That first ride in bibs was three weeks ago. When I returned home I had a drink of milk and started to feel strange, tight throat and pain between shoulder blades. It took a few hours to recover from this .I put it down to the pressure of the bibs across my shoulders and neck, and getting used to being on drops again.
The next day I completed my first 50 mile ride at approx. 15mph average speed, followed by my first metric 100 the next week. All was going well, on the 9th I set out for a gentle scenic ride, and all was going well. No wind, some fast downhills [41.4mph] I took a break near Alcester for a drink...the pain returned to my throat and between my shoulder blades. I decided to just take it easy and turned for home. The pain increased and forced me to stop and rest on a bench. I decided to push on to Henley in Arden and get a taxi home. I didn't quite make it and a delivery driver came to my aid and took me and lovely bike home.
I was in a bad way and called wife to get an ambulance . I had had a heart attack, was taken into surgery on arrival at hospital and a stent was fitted. They discovered that I have congenital heart disease and need a triple bypass. I am due to have that done on the 5th of August, so not long to go. In the meen time I have to walk and condition myself in prep. for the op. I managed a 50min walk yesterday and am feeling stronger day by day.
Today I made the decision to press the Montague with Heinzmann back into service; I had cleaned and returned it to the way it was when first purchased, but have now refitted the rack and pannier bags and given it a short test ride.
I had forgotten how powerful it is, especially without the trailer and daughter in tow.
I am hoping that it will help me improve my fitness once again. I will use it up until the op, after the op I will use a turbo trainer in the garage as I have to allow the chest wound to heal and avoid jolts. I think the heinzmann will help me return to road cycling in the months that follow until I again regain enough fitness and confidence to be unpowered again.
If any of you have experienced recovery from a bypass op I would be grateful for your thoughts and advice.
Kind regards
Nigel
ps. a quick pic of the Heinzmann
The use of the bikes and trikes over the last 4 1/2 years have aided my recovery from a serious horse riding accident no end. They have helped me gain strength, fitness and confidence. The added advantage are the friends throughout the community that I have made, Presteigne being a real high point over the years.
Having turned 50 and with an active 7 year old cycling daughter, I began a return to unpowered two wheelers last year. I have been cycling with her on the road to school, a journey of 2 miles. She is a strong, confident and observant cyclist and has been racing with our local club. This has helped me to enjoy my own adventures and improved fitness. I pressed into use my 1990's Trek 820 hard tail mtb, fitted with touring tyres, but soon realised that I wanted to go further and faster.
I could feel the lure of a new bike on the horizon, but being older and slightly less impetuous, I set myself some goals fitness wise. This also included doing some longer and faster rides with a sociable local cycling club. I was making good progress, but a hernia op in April slowed me down for just a few weeks. Determined not to lose my new found fitness, I was back riding after a few days, although not putting too much effort in until a few weeks had passed.
I decided to bite the bullet and buy a new light weight road bike, and here it is....
What a ride! Distance and speed came easily, well 'ish' and I even made the move to riding in bib shorts. That first ride in bibs was three weeks ago. When I returned home I had a drink of milk and started to feel strange, tight throat and pain between shoulder blades. It took a few hours to recover from this .I put it down to the pressure of the bibs across my shoulders and neck, and getting used to being on drops again.
The next day I completed my first 50 mile ride at approx. 15mph average speed, followed by my first metric 100 the next week. All was going well, on the 9th I set out for a gentle scenic ride, and all was going well. No wind, some fast downhills [41.4mph] I took a break near Alcester for a drink...the pain returned to my throat and between my shoulder blades. I decided to just take it easy and turned for home. The pain increased and forced me to stop and rest on a bench. I decided to push on to Henley in Arden and get a taxi home. I didn't quite make it and a delivery driver came to my aid and took me and lovely bike home.
I was in a bad way and called wife to get an ambulance . I had had a heart attack, was taken into surgery on arrival at hospital and a stent was fitted. They discovered that I have congenital heart disease and need a triple bypass. I am due to have that done on the 5th of August, so not long to go. In the meen time I have to walk and condition myself in prep. for the op. I managed a 50min walk yesterday and am feeling stronger day by day.
Today I made the decision to press the Montague with Heinzmann back into service; I had cleaned and returned it to the way it was when first purchased, but have now refitted the rack and pannier bags and given it a short test ride.
I had forgotten how powerful it is, especially without the trailer and daughter in tow.
I am hoping that it will help me improve my fitness once again. I will use it up until the op, after the op I will use a turbo trainer in the garage as I have to allow the chest wound to heal and avoid jolts. I think the heinzmann will help me return to road cycling in the months that follow until I again regain enough fitness and confidence to be unpowered again.
If any of you have experienced recovery from a bypass op I would be grateful for your thoughts and advice.
Kind regards
Nigel
ps. a quick pic of the Heinzmann
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