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Dear all at Hiprunner 7 months and 5 days after a right sided total hip replacement I have just competed in the World Sprint Triathlon Championships i
[See the full post at: Triathlon World Championship]Hi Adrian – impressive! Top half of the field so soon after your op, you must be very chuffed. I looked at the results to see how 70-74 age group performed, as I am coming up to 69 but can’t swim freestyle yet, and they are not that far away from my running and biking performances. Swimming is hard, though, and I don’t enjoy it particularly…
I have a BHR resurfacing L hip from 2014 and a THR ceramic/ceramic R hip from 2017, both times I was back to parkrun and biking within 8 weeks and have managed sub-24 minutes for 5k a couple of times, currently around 25 mins due to offroad projects in Wales and Derbyshire spoiling racing speed…
Good luck in future events – have you come across Alan Lightfoot? He has a BHR and competes triathlon, he contributes to the Surfacehippy website, as do I.Pete
Pete, thank you for your comments and yes I have come across Alan and have raced against him in quite a few events. Good to hear that you are running well, although I don’t think you would have relished the course in Lausanne, it was a non wetsuit swim, hilly bike and a run with a 20% radiant hill that even the top triathletes walked up! I haven’t come across the surfacehippy website but I will check it out. Keep trying with the swimming as it would be great to see you in the age group triathlon circuit.
Hi Adrian, that’s great to hear you got back to racing triathlon at a great level ??, I’m 7 weeks after a right THR, and just getting going on the bike trainer and swimming, any tips for getting back to running, as would still like to get back to doing a few races as I was getting into 70.3 racing before hip finally had enough
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StephenStephen, I started running (ish) again after about 8 weeks. The approach I took was that I would take the dog for a walk to a park and once at the park I would shuffle/run 10 steps and then walk for a minute or so and then repeat until I had shuffled/ran about 10 times. The following day I would shuffle/run 11 steps, 10 times and so on until I got to 25 steps and then I discounted the number of steps and would shuffle/run for a minute and then walk recover. After a while I was running a few minutes non stop and then decided that in May I would run 1k non stop, June 2k, July 3k etc, however by the time July came around I could actually run 5k, so I did. Everyone is different but be careful of changing your running style to pose/forefoot, as usually recommended for hip replacements, as it often results in calf injury, as it did for me and will set you back. However I do recommend a midfoot landing on cushioned shoes such as Hoka’s. Good luck and I hope it all goes well for you.
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