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St Valentine's Day and progress!

 14 February 2024 Happy St Valentine's Day! Just a quick post today - I ran!!!! I ran I ran I ran Not far - I was Nordic Walking very fast and every 6 minutes I did 45 secs of running (OK, it was a shuffle, but in my head I was running!).  Heart fine so far! Also this week I rode my road bike (not the electric one) and it was nowhere near as bad as my first ride a few weeks back, when I was exhausted afterwards.  So that's good. AND (there is no end to the excitement!) I rowed WITHOUT any fast heart rate or ectopic beats!! I'm still feeling fat and lardy.  I'm also a bit shocked at how unfit I am - I think I thought, because I recovered quicker this time, I'd be less unfit, but then 17 weeks without running is 17 weeks without running - it's irrelevant that 17 is less than my previous average ablation to run time of 25 weeks - it's still ages!!!  I've also been punching the punchbag (needed it after dealing with office politics and idiocy), using the Max...
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Recovery from ablation number FOUR

  Update January 2025 Well, progress was about the same for the other three ablations to begin with, although I was set back at least a week by all that drama in October (nearly died!   See my previous blog!!).   I was able to do things like Pilates and yoga a bit quicker than before but that may have been due to confidence rather than any physical recovery as such.   My walking was terrible as usual – it was nearly seven weeks before I managed to walk a mile which was several weeks slower than after the others which was really disappointing.   Instead, I used my electric bike a bit although progress was slow to begin with (as usual, sigh). After about 11 weeks though, my recovery just sped up.   I managed to walk two miles just 12 days after I finally conquered one; three miles came just six days later and four miles a few days after that.   And it felt much more like a normal speed than before.   I was thinking that I would soon be out on my...
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Recovery from Ablation #4 - and some major drama!

  Recovery from Ablation number four 16 October 2024 – And so I’d had the famous Pulsed-Field Ablation – promising faster recovery! Plus this time I went into this pretty fit – I had trained hard as I could all year – got super fit in the spring, then missed two months with whooping cough, hiking in the summer, three weeks off for my nose op and then trained like a loon for three weeks! The ablation was as described in my previous post.   The first week was as usual – felt drowsier and more lethargic than I had recalled.   I had all wild plans to STUDY! REVISE GERMAN! AND FRENCH! AND ITALIAN! FINISH MY ON-LINE ADVANCED SPORTS MASSAGE COURSE! UPDATE MY BLOG! DO SOME WRITING! PLAY THE PIANO! In the event I managed a bit of reading, knitted some teddy bears and a bit of a jigsaw puzzle.     No energy to do more. Slept badly like I always do after an ablation – my shins were just killing me – I’m not sure if this is some sort of referred sciatic pain ...
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