What articular cartilage?
Ended up having another arthroscopic clean-up in Feb 2010, this time on my left knee. Surgeon’s quote after looking around was ‘it’s not a happy knee’. His long-term advice was:
- don’t ever get fat
- stop running
- ride a bike a lot
- swim
The stop running bit is depressing. I’ve been bicycling about 50km per week all year. Recently got a new road bike & have bumped up the cycling to about 100km per week (cycling to work a bit).
I had about 6 sessions with a physio after the surgery. He had a look at the photos and the surgeon’s report & I think he was pretty amazed at how pain free and functional the knee is. I got sick of doing the physio so a few months ago I abruptly dropped the sessions without communicating with them.
In the last month I have done about 6 run sessions, all within the 1.5 to 3.5km range. These have been laps around a gravel track which is 2.5km from home. I do these sessions at about 9pm (once the kids are sound asleep). What happens is I pick one of my bikes (the old MTB or the new flat bar roadie) put on heaps of warm gear and ride to the gravel track. Start doing laps (according to the Aldi bike computer its 345m circumference). After a couple of laps I ditch some gear. After about 15 min of running I ride home.
Hoping to get to the point where I can run up to 5km 2-3 times per week (always on soft surfaces). These runs are being done on an ‘I’m an experiment of one’, ‘listen to your body’, ‘running is important to me’, ‘my knee feels ok’, ‘hang the surgeon’s advice’ basis.
The other exercise highlight that’s taken place this year has been regular summer swimming in the Werribee river near home. On Jan 11 I tentatively did a little swim. I had no Ill effects and really enjoyed it. I announced to my wife that I will make a point of having a river swim any day the temp is above 30. I quickly became addicted to/obsessed with the pleasure I was deriving from the swims, to the point where I was forced to revise my policy to ‘must swim when ever the temp is 25 or above’. All up I had 23 river swims last summer. They were decent swims too, usually 3-400 m upstream and return. There’s a lovely song by The Church called ‘Tranquility’ which has the line ‘….summer in the river…..’. This was often in my mind as I swam.
I’m sure the people who saw me swimming thought I was strange. I like the concept that people think I’m strange.
- don’t ever get fat
- stop running
- ride a bike a lot
- swim
The stop running bit is depressing. I’ve been bicycling about 50km per week all year. Recently got a new road bike & have bumped up the cycling to about 100km per week (cycling to work a bit).
I had about 6 sessions with a physio after the surgery. He had a look at the photos and the surgeon’s report & I think he was pretty amazed at how pain free and functional the knee is. I got sick of doing the physio so a few months ago I abruptly dropped the sessions without communicating with them.
In the last month I have done about 6 run sessions, all within the 1.5 to 3.5km range. These have been laps around a gravel track which is 2.5km from home. I do these sessions at about 9pm (once the kids are sound asleep). What happens is I pick one of my bikes (the old MTB or the new flat bar roadie) put on heaps of warm gear and ride to the gravel track. Start doing laps (according to the Aldi bike computer its 345m circumference). After a couple of laps I ditch some gear. After about 15 min of running I ride home.
Hoping to get to the point where I can run up to 5km 2-3 times per week (always on soft surfaces). These runs are being done on an ‘I’m an experiment of one’, ‘listen to your body’, ‘running is important to me’, ‘my knee feels ok’, ‘hang the surgeon’s advice’ basis.
The other exercise highlight that’s taken place this year has been regular summer swimming in the Werribee river near home. On Jan 11 I tentatively did a little swim. I had no Ill effects and really enjoyed it. I announced to my wife that I will make a point of having a river swim any day the temp is above 30. I quickly became addicted to/obsessed with the pleasure I was deriving from the swims, to the point where I was forced to revise my policy to ‘must swim when ever the temp is 25 or above’. All up I had 23 river swims last summer. They were decent swims too, usually 3-400 m upstream and return. There’s a lovely song by The Church called ‘Tranquility’ which has the line ‘….summer in the river…..’. This was often in my mind as I swam.
I’m sure the people who saw me swimming thought I was strange. I like the concept that people think I’m strange.
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