It’s all relative

Compared to ascending a long and steep mountain slope in perfect autumn colours or biking single track trails on my stumpjumper with some good friends, sitting on my Monark excercise bike is not that much fun. But, compared to not being allowed to excersise at all, due to stitches in my shoulder after a recent surgery, biking without getting anywhere is a fantastic feeling!

Today, I’ve had my left shoulder in a triangular bandage for more than a month. All former strength in my upper body is for sure all gone by now and the surgery two weeks ago still hurts. But, at least I am allowed to sweat again! I’ve done four sessions on my excerise-bike this week. The longest lasted for one hour. They were all very painful with very high hearth-rate levels but modest output. The toughest session was yesterday. 10 min warmup, then four 8 min intervalls with 2 min rest. Headed for the same output that I managed pretty easy last winter. First two intervalls was hard but ok, third very hard for the second half with record high heart-rate. The fourth and last intervall was painpull already from the beginning and then it got all worse from that. Last two minutes it felt like my head would explode, but I managed to continue. As I reached 8 minutes I had to lay down outside our house in the rain to get my body temperature down, not thinking of a cool-of spin at all. Spent some 10 minutes in the cold rain before I managed to get back in, just to continue to lay down in the hall for a while. It is not an easy work trying to get back in shape. Looking forward to another 6-8 weeks of alternative training on excercise bike and similar torture-methods before I am allowed to swap to cross country skiing or trail running again.
But, when the weather is good I can at least bike outside!

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1 Response to "It’s all relative"

  1. Rikard says:

    Så nu vet du hur det känns för oss vanliga dödliga. Lycka till med rehaben!

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