{"id":2330,"date":"2009-10-15T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2009-10-15T09:29:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T08:29:28","slug":"back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2331\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2331\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2331 \" title=\"track\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/track-400x245.jpg\" alt=\"Back on Track\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/track-400x245.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/track-120x73.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/track.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back on Track<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m finally feeling as though its time to get back on track and start training again. It&#8217;s taken a while as it has been over 2 months since I was in hospital and I&#8217;m still not feeling 100%, but I can take it no more. I just need to get out on my bike and back in the pool swimming before my muscles waste away completely.<\/p>\n<p>I went out for an easy ride around the Dragons Back Trail at Coed y Brenin with Andrew a couple of weekends ago. I&#8217;ve had one or two goes on the turbo trainer, and last night I did a night ride with the Ystwyth MTB guys. None of it was easy, but I coped and didn&#8217;t actually do too badly considering I hadn&#8217;t been on a bike for a while.<\/p>\n<p>So, now it&#8217;s time to start training properly again.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I have noticed is an interesting pattern in my maximum heart rate. Before I went into hospital with pericarditis the first time, my maximum heart rate on a ride was usually around 180bpm. Whilst in hospital the first time my heart rate was really low. 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