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FitOldDog’s Guide to Aortic Surgery Recovery, or how to handle your life after such a life-threatening event, is now available, as is Aortic Disease From The Patient’s Perspective.
FitOldDog’s race gear at the 2012 Eagleman Half Ironman transition area – the only piece of gear that you cannot see is his Cook Zenith AAA stent graft.Well, my allowed me to complete yet another triathlon, the Eagleman Half, in Cambridge, Maryland, USA. The heat really messed up my run, in spite of an otherwise fairly satisfactory race against a very competitive field. But as my friend, Rory, said, when I called him after the event, “” I fully agree with this insightful sentiment. You probably train for 50 to 100 hours for every hour spent competing in a triathlon, so you had better enjoy the training or why bother?Well, my Cook Zenith abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft allowed me to complete yet another triathlon, the Eagleman Half, in Cambridge, Maryland, USA. The heat really messed up my run, in spite of an otherwise fairly satisfactory race against a very competitive field. But as my friend, Rory, said, when I called him after the event, “Racing is just an excuse to train.” I fully agree with this insightful sentiment. You probably train for 50 to 100 hours for every hour spent competing in a triathlon, so you had better enjoy the training or why bother?
This weekend I also completed my first FitOldDog product, which is available for purchase on this site. This 49-page document was designed for the FitOldDog of August 2010, when I went from Ironman triathlete to aortic surgery case. The 2010 Lake Placid Ironman, combined with heightened body awareness due to Feldenkrais and Pathology training, saved my life through self-diagnosis of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), which was ready to pop at 6.9 cm diameter. So, I owe my life to the Ironman.
Here is another essential piece of equipment in the early morning hours of any Ironman triathlon.
I was fortunate to receive an AAA stent graft, which gave me back my life, but I had to work out how to live with this remarkable metal and plastic gizmo inside my body. My biggest problem was fear, combined with lack of information, much of which was just not available in the form of guidance with respect to Ironman training with an AAA stent graft. I became a one-man experiment, which is detailed in my first commercial product, the FitOldDog’s Quick Start Guide to Aortic Surgery Recovery. I sure wish that I had possessed a copy of such a document in August of 2010. Now I move on to a subject (trick) that is completely new to this old dog, marketing. Learning new things is what keeps us going, more than most of us realize.
Please excuse this commercial break. Normal blogging service will be resumed as soon as I have enjoyed my early morning cups of tea – this really is my favorite time of the day.
-k @FitOldDog
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