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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

1st post-surgery bike ride

Even though it is mid-January, it is 62 degrees here in Virginia, so I closed my laptop early to hop on my bike for the first outdoor bike ride since my knee surgery 6 months ago.

I never left the low gears on my bike but that might have more to do with the extra weight around my belly than the knee surgery.

~10 miles in ~ 45 minutes - 13mph versus 16-17 pre-surgery pace, though usually over much hillier roads.

(I should mention that I was cleared to ride outside a month ago, but between the cold weather, and the doctor's order that I stay off of hills, I didn't get to ride until today.)
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