HI Cycling friends.
So cycling is low impact on our hips and good for recovery. Luckily, I've loved cycling since I got my first Schwinn Sting Ray in 2nd or 3rd grade and have been riding ever since.
Post surgery, I've been cycling more and more, enjoying pain-free riding with non-arthritic hips. I had a pause for concern on today's ride, when I did some rounded math. I'm training approx 10 hrs a week on bike. My average cadence is approx 85 / min. That's a total of 51,000 pedal strokes a week.
I know we're all kind of guinea pigs w/ relatively new surgical technique. Anybody w/ any engineering facts to assuage this concern?
I think we'd have to factor all the positive health results from physical fitness. And consider that most any exercise, even low impact, involves repetitive motion at the hip joint (walking, swimming, etc.)
A couple cycling asides:
Steve, read about your exploits in another thread: 40-plus miles 6 weeks or so post surgery. Incredible!
And a word of warning to other cyclists on this board. When Spencer says, "why don't you come down to Tucson for a ride?" He means it. And then the next thing you know, you'll be planning to climb Mt Lemmon.
Seriously, thanks for the invite. According to my stats, it's just under 6k of climbing over 30 miles, ending at some 8K of elevation. But it's a testament to what we can do w/ resurfaced hips that we can plan something like this 7 mo post surgery for Spencer and 10 mo after my last bilat.
Keep lookin up,
-Dirk