Re: Longer ride

On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:09:58 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
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On Fri Jun 14 17:30:13 2024 Shadow  wrote:

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:16:29 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

I did a 40 nilo4e ride yesterday and while I was tired at the ebd, I was not so exhausted that I couldn't complete it.
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I watched closely and On the bike trail into the wind 10-11 mph was all that I was doing. So by the time it came to ride downwind I was too tired to do any faster.
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Since this started after I had the shingles and I believe tht I have the latest covid-19 which triggered the shingles, this sudden onset of low energy is too rapid onset to be natural aging.
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My metabolic panel shows everything normal except for red and white cell count which has been low ever since I injurred my lungs

 
Injured lungs will ALWAYS give you a HIGH red blood count,
unless you have a severe metabolic problem. That should sound all
sorts of alarms with your doctor.
 

so that isn't causing any additional exhaustion. My blood sugar is high side of normal.
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I wonder if this has happened to anyone else who thinks that they might have had covid-19 and then a large reduction in performance?

 
I got COVID before the vaccine came out. Gave me myocarditis.
10 Km is about the maximum I can ride before my heart starts acting
up...
Also, I'm in my 70's, so I don't expect to ride as far as I
did 10-15 years ago. In those days I'd ride 50 km over sand and mud on
my one-gear Caloi and wouldn't feel tired at all.
Might I suggest you change doctors? A second opinion is never
a bad idea...
Also, a visit to an eye doctor might be indicated, unless a
"40 nilo4e ride" is slang I don't know.
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I have bloof counts from the time of the injury onward and they all show reduced blood counts and that was 15 years ago. Now pwrhqaps it is genetics but before this time I was entering the local races and woiuld catch up to the 1-2-3's from a minute behind without a lot of problems. But that was stupid racing and I could only hang on the back having blown everything catching them. But as swoon as my lungs were injurred. there was a rather spectacular decrease in power.
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So either the lung damage also caused a reduction in blood count or I was doing very good with a low blood count which stopped upon getting lung damage that was causing me to stop breathing in the middle of the night and my wife having to shake me awake to start breathing again. Your call.
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It would seem obvious that a reduction in O2 would cause an increase in blood count but that has not been the case with me. Although when I was riding with our group I did return to the level of being able to give the leaders 1/4th mile and catch and pass them before the top of the hills.
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I have been wondering if my problem simply isn't excess weight since I would be very slow and hardly capable of keepingf up with the back group in the early season. Then as the excess weight came off I would climb faster and faster until I could ride with the main group and then take off and catch the rabbits.

What's your BMI (or Tefethen BMI is you are very tall) ?
Mine is 25.

And what are your hemoglobin levels?
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