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1) The place to read about it as it pertains to people like us is right here. You will not find a better source than talking to others who have been through it. 2) Post-op depression is also normal, sort of like post-partum but not as severe. Nobody talks about it much but when you mention it...

I've taken BP & BB meds for nearly 30 years and could never attribute any dizziness to them.

I ran a mile on the track Tues. night, 10:02. I slowed down a bit this year. I'm 66 now and a few lbs heavier. My mile was 10:11 last month, so it's getting better. What I liked about this one was the way I paced 4 laps very evenly, 2:29/2:32/2:30/2:31. I'm like a metronome when I get in shape...

Oh right, the author was in the UK when we started writing. He's now in OZ. I ordered it from Amazon myself, not Creatspace. As for soccer, I can't see why it would be any more problematic than track running as I do. But be careful of collisions. If anyone comes with a few feet of you, fall to...

Both, of course. There are people with everything heart related you can imagine. People who dropped dead during a race and were resuscitated, people who had congenital or life-long issues. There have been former Olympians and professional athletes and others who never did a lick of exercise...

I haven't seen where anyone else has posted this yet, so here's a link to "Cardiac Athletes", a book that has been almost 4 years in the making. It has 17 chapters each of which was written by one of us about his/her own personal experience with heart surgery and return to fitness thereafter...

That ain't middle distance, it's as long as most people ever get. Running is divided into 4 categories based on the type of training and race tactics required, sprints, middle distance, long distance and marathon. Sprints go from 100 meters to 800m, middle is from 800m up to about 5 Km, anything...

I keep careful records of my races and to date have done 448, over 300 of them since AVR. Tonight begins the local summer track & field meets in Albany, so I'll do at least 1, maybe 2 races, plus shot put. The mile is first, so race #450 is likely to be 400 or 200 meters.

Never been above 7000 ft myself. I noticed no difference in normal training runs but significant slowdown in a 5K race. However, when I first searched around for other cardiac athletes 20+ years ago I came across a woman in Colorado who had run the Pikes Peak ascent post-AVR.

Right. Wednesday night our running club met at the U. Albany track for intervals. I'm training to run the mile on a track, so my intervals were short and fast, some all-out, so I can say I pushed the HR to the max, whatever that is these days. I wasn't the only cardiac athlete there. Another guy...

I once corresponded with an engineer who worked on product testing of mechanical valves. He said they were tested to at least 30 years worth of cycles. In order to get 30 yrs of clicks in a short enough span they ran the test machine at several thousand RPM. If they can hold up under 2000 ticks...

No, no issues with the valve ever, and yes, many people have done marathons, ultras, even Ironman. I am not a marathoner, always preferred running track distances, but I've done hundreds of races from 200 meters to half marathon.

Sure, it lasted about 4 weeks. By then the summer track season was over and I ramped up the distance for fall road races.

Uh, yeah, about that internal bleeding thing and coumadin. Here's a shot from several years ago. I tore a calf muscle running sprints on a track and it took a few days to reach this stage. The tear was actually higher up the leg but it drained down, swelled and discolored the whole thing.

Sounds like the original valve repair was less than perfect, but then again you may have done too much too soon. They don't give any guarantees in this line of work. As for the mechanical valves, mine is going strong at 23 years.

I started out coming back slowly, entering a 3 miler 5 mos after VR and kept the races short until 1 yr. At 12 mos I had done 6 short races, then entered a 10K, 8 miler and 15k the next couple mos. By 18 mos I had done about 15 or 16 races. It's now been more than 22 years and close to 300...

I'm always in training for something, but nothing in particular. I run between 12 and 25 races a year, but it was a nasty winter, so I'm a couple races short thus far. I did run a 5K trail race 2 weeks ago, not hard since my training has been lagging. Maybe I'll go a little faster in a road 5k...

There's one near Albany NY on October 26, the Hairy Gorilla Half. It's in a state park in hill country south of the city. I haven't run it but have done many shorter trail races put on by the same club. They always do it up right, in fact this crew goes overboard to make runs fun...

I'm like Clay. It's at rest that I have to worst rhythm and it gets smoother when I run. At times, I've gotten down into the 30s resting and it doesn't feel good, so I go up & down the stairs to bring it back up. Normal resting HR for me is 55.

Let's take a long view. Over several years there will be ups and downs in your fitness. You'll have to contend with illness, injury, family and career responsibilities, sometimes just a loss of motivation. Here's a list of my annual total running mileage. Can you tell me by looking at this - no...