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  1. SumoRunner

    Be honest: can I do this?

    Wing men beware. I remember doing a 15K about 15 months after AVR, one that I had run probably 10 times before. A friend insisted on running it with me although he hadn't done one before, at least not since leaving the military decades earlier. I suspect my wife put him up to it. I slowed down a...
  2. SumoRunner

    Be honest: can I do this?

    First the short version. Absolutely! Take your time getting back into it. Wait the requisite 6 weeks before starting, then begin with short - maybe 50 yards at best - very slow jogs in the middle of your daily walk. Gradually increase it for until you can run a full mile non-stop. That may be...
  3. SumoRunner

    Peachtree Road Race

    From what I've read, it isn't even possible to run Peachtree hard because of the enormous crowds.
  4. SumoRunner

    26 year old playing sports on Warfarin

    I've been running track, long distance, throwing shot, whatever, for 22 years post AVR. You can get some pretty ugly bruises. Here's one I got running track a few years ago. Tore the calf muscle and it bled internally to "fill up the leg" like a giant grape. Nothing life threatening but worse...
  5. SumoRunner

    Pushups routine

    Well, now I'm not doing them any more. It's a seasonal thing. I like to mix up the exercises. Tons of pushups all winter & spring, then very few the 2nd half of the year. I back off in June because I want to move on to other things. I'm lowering the running miles too. Next week starts the track...
  6. SumoRunner

    Second Wind

    Congratulations. Soar like an eagle. I'm sure no one here ever had any doubts.
  7. SumoRunner

    Spring race ...

    Congratulations. 13.1 is not an easy run in anybody's estimation. I've run hundreds of races but only a few halfs and only one post-AVR. The tough part is doing sufficient training. Just showing up at the starting line is a big accomplishment in my book.
  8. SumoRunner

    Running a 10k a year and a day after my op!

    I ran a 10k after about one year, but I had always been a runner and by then it was already my 7th race post-op. You say you have 4 weeks to go but don't say how far you've run recently. I'm assuming you can go at least 3 miles non-stop. Over the next 4 weeks you should be running 3 days a...
  9. SumoRunner

    Attention Runners!

    I'll be there. It's only a 3hr drive for me and I think I can recruit a couple more Albany guys to come along. After I wrote an article for the local road runners club about last year's meeting in Baltimore, I was contacted by a few other cardiac athletes near me.
  10. SumoRunner

    Pushups routine

    Set a new personal record this morning of 500 pushups, 10 sets of 50 done over about 2 hrs. My previous high count was 420 four years ago when I was a mere kid of 61.
  11. SumoRunner

    Run times and distance

    A few years ago, a couple of us on another forum tried a little experiment running races with and without taking beta blockers. Medical people go bonkers when you start messing with meds, but we took our chances. It wasn't that we stopped taking the stuff for a long period, but just delayed...
  12. SumoRunner

    Chest pain

    Yeah. I remember that in the early years. Minor though, not acute like you describe. I avoided lifting weights until many years later. You must have done something a little too hard. I don't recall how long it took to go away but today I can do anything. Oddly, while doing my morning pushups, I...
  13. SumoRunner

    Limitations

    I'm 65 now, got my valve 22 years ago. I have run over 1,000 mi and 10-12 races every year since, some years as many as 25-30. I've run track races from 200 meters to 2 mi. and road races from 3 to 13.1 mi. I can swim a mile, throw shot put, and did 5,000 pushups last month, as many as 400 in...
  14. SumoRunner

    Limitations

    Limitations? Very few. Don't get into kick boxing, but otherwise go for whatever you want.
  15. SumoRunner

    Sumo Runner on local TV news

    Albany NY runners in the news last night. I'm in there at 1:40. http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3000881.shtml?cat=300
  16. SumoRunner

    A Global Hero is a runner - Apply for the 2013 Global Heroes team today

    There is nothing in the application about device manufacturer. They have no way of knowing which one you have.
  17. SumoRunner

    A Global Hero is a runner - Apply for the 2013 Global Heroes team today

    Not only is it odd, but the "Nominate" section of their web site was impossible to find. How does that make things fair? Here's the link they sent me after I complained. https://secure.lenos.com/lenos/bimeeting/p48554MedtronicGlobalHeroes2013/
  18. SumoRunner

    A Global Hero is a runner - Apply for the 2013 Global Heroes team today

    I got the following email from Medtronics saying I have no "recommendations" yet. I find this somewhat disconcerting since I would have thought the applications should stand on their own. Apparently, they are weighing the input of others to make their selection and it is not enough to simply...
  19. SumoRunner

    Pushups routine

    Perhaps, but the point is it's something I have always done and no artificial body part can keep me from it. Last Wed. I did 8 sets of 50, 400 at age 65, and that's close to my all-time record. One cannot do that unless he builds up to it very gradually. Same thing with running, I build slowly...
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