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Hi Bernard,
Sounds good. We did a survey here, HipRunner and Athletics Illustrated. I beleive there have been more contributions since, but some of the results were published here: https://athleticsillustrated.com/total-hip-replacement-surgery-results-in-high-satisfaction-for-would-be-runners/
Will reach out by email as well.
Chris
Re: Parkinsons. Fight it hard. Advances are being made. Some things: Brain stimulating exercises are good. Get your neuromuscular system stimulated. Try coordination-oriented things, skipping rope, boxing exercises, table tennis et etc. Apparently MTC oil, from coconut oil and even coconut oil itself is the only digestible thing to pass the blood-brain barrier and has been used for those fighting the spectrum of Parkinson’s, Alzeimers, Dementia…..
…I am not sure if you want to do too much in the way of soccer, or super fast sprints….gentle-kinda-fast-relaxed strides are good….
If you can run OFF ROAD, so off concrete and tarmac/asphalt that will likely help….cheers,
CI am not back at my previous best, but that is in part to having a decade off. I was never that fast anyway: 18, 36-high, 82/83 etc as a young master, age: 40-42.
I am now 55 and have been back running nearly four years, had the surgery nearly five years ago.
One issue was recurring calf pulls, but I may be past that now. So, I wasn’t able to do more than 30-50 miles per week. Also, fast stuff would trigger pulls.
So, I am around 22:20, 46, who knows for the half….
Thanks, I raced in them Saturday in a TT. So, obviously would go faster in a real race. Set a post-hip replacement pb (context reminder alert: three surgeries, decade off, yada yada).
22:16…..so inching forward a little….not speed work, low volume, no other time trials, all jogging and steady efforts, so I assume that’s going to improve a fair amount…..
How is that IT band?
Also, if you abuse the snot out of it in a session, don’t abuse it for a couple of days, because there will be a stress reaction to all the abuse, so you need to let it recover, then abuse it again….stress and recover, just like weight lifting, running and great sex.
I am five years too. Loving life too.
The IT band is awesome, because once you know how to deal with it. It is dead simple, but work-oriented.
If it is indeed your IT band, then it can stand a great amount of abuse to teach it a lesson. Foam roller or if you are a masochist get a rolling pin. Roll with your body weight up and down on the floor back and forth on that IT band. Go for the crying; it will work. Certainly you can dig in with your knuckles, use a lacrosse ball, and do (see YouTube) excercises to stretch as well.
Typically the IT band goes over the prosthesis a little, make it stretched. This will take time to knead and massage and roll to grow and not be tight like a guitar string against the frets.
Watch your abductors too, from the groin down to the inside of the knee. Same thing, you can grab that sucker with some massage oil and just run your hand down the leg putting pressure on that abductor all the way down.
As for a weights program, go for it. Age-related atrophy or sarcopenia is a thing. Fight it off. But your IT band issue comes from various other lower body things like overcompensation due to learning to run with good form (and forgetting too), too much rolling out of the foot or landing on the outside…..on asphalt/concrete. And imbalances etc. Once you fix the IT Band issue, it will return for a visit sometimes. Teach it a lesson again….it’s part of the runner’s injury avoidance fandango.
Good luck.
Good news. I had my hip replaced about the same time. Maybe a year earlier. I often now think about how many more years I have before a revision, five, 10, never?
I am not built for ultras, more of a fast twitch runners, was fast over 800m as a kid. But I have always enjoyed volume, so well before hip issue enjoyed week after week of 70-90 miles per week, a couple of 100s. I am not there yet. I am about 40-45 miles at this time. would like at least one more aerobic base-building summer, coming up here. And would be happy to run some 70 mile weeks.
Glad to hear that people like yourself are running ultras….there is hope.
Three months is the recommended start of exercise that puts pressure on the area, like long walks, and things.
I went for a power walk 91 days later.
Take it gradually. Maybe on your next few walks decide if you feel like doing one minute of running, here and there, and decide how that feels….add as you can gradually. If you feel pains around the area, it likely is not the hip because you can’t feel the prosthetic, it’s a foreign device.
It does take time for the bones to adopt the device in the femur, so let that happen. The bone grows around the device unless you had it cemented in. You should find that out.
Good luck.
Good stuff, Pete.
That’s solid running. Good work.
I am going to try a time trial this Saturday and aim for 13:12, which if I don’t strain too much, I figure will get me to sub-22. Not as good age-graded as you, but happy after 12 years off.
Oh yeah, and my final anaerobic session went well: 3 x 1K @ 4:03, 4:12, 4:15, 3:08 (800m), so average around 4:10-ish). None of that was on the track, but loose gravel, except for the 800m on asphalt. No super shoes.
Results (ongoing): Global Virtual One-hour Race, race extended, three hats drawn
Thanks for all of the encouraging comments in regards to downhill skiing. That’s it. I am buying new gear. I sold my old stuff two days ago, but it was time to upgrade anyway.
Woot.Now register for the Global One-hour Virtual Race!!
Ha ha, no pressure….but while we are here. It is $5 as a suggested donation, proceeds to KidSport.
Cheers,
Also, I would add that prosthetic is not part of your body, so you cannot feel wear and tear, you will need imaging. In Canada we have first year and second year anniversary, then every other year anniversary imaging. Which reminds me, I gotta go back in. Now if something literally breaks, you will know…..
