white wizzard wrote:
Since extreme endurance training and racing has a well documented association with atrial arrythmias why would you want to do an Ironman? Seems rather foolish to me.
I had an ablation for tachy about 10 years ago and saw my surgeon recently, she said I have no exercise limitations i.e. Ironman's pose no risk to my heart.
Edit: I read back to some of your posts, see that you are an MD. I still don't see validity in your claim to stop triathlons because of an ablation. I'm not an expert but it seems once the extra tissue is removed, there is no longer a pathway available to initiate the tachycardia. If it doesn't happen again for ten years, it means it is impossible to have an episode again since the tissue must be gone? Unless the tissue can somehow regrow creating the pathway again? Is that even possible?