HalfSpeed wrote:
If you’re the right candidate, that laser spine surgery is the bomb, I’ve been told. I’m having bolts and rods fusing L2–L5. My spine is crushed, rotated and arcing to one side; scoliosis & what happens from that as an athlete that’s aging. I’ve lost a couple inches in height, as well.
My surgeon said it’s a 3-4 hour procedure, 3 days in the hospital and 3 weeks of recovery. I doubt though, that his definition of recovery is hitting the trails running.
OK thanks for the update....I thought the recovery from fusion was more like 3-6 months. Aparently I am good candidate for laser spine according to multiple sources.
Enough of the crying and back to the fish thread.
I think I "officially qualify as a SWIMMER"
Today, I arrived at the pool with 30 minutes left.....hmmmm what workout can i do in 30 minutes. I know, 12 minute warmup and then 1000m of 50/50 fly x 10 and beat the pool cut off time.
So, I just built into things kind of taking it "easy for the first 300m (well as easy as continuous fly-free can get), then built up from there tot 700m and then opened up the tank for the last 300m. I beat the lane swim cut off, but I don't know how close to 1 pm they removed the lane lines, but it was close to 18 minutes.
After that 30 minutes doing IM leg sets of widths of the pool with kids jumping all over the place to round out the 30 min swim
But I THINK if I can do a 1000m fly-free whenever I want "just because" then I finally qualify in the fish group and I am not exclusively a flounder ex triathlete any more.
Lifetime fishies, please vote if this qualifies for formal ST endorsement (I would put this in the same category of the ST FTP dick swinging 4.5W per kilo cutoff for being ST approved and I never made that....was always around 0.7 to 0.25W per kilo off at my best)