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You know what?\u00a0 Easing back in is hard.\u00a0 Because even though I’m well on my way to being back to full strength after my surgery, I still have this hip injury to deal with.<\/p>\nYou know what?\u00a0 Easing back in is hard.\u00a0 Because even though I’m well on my way to being back to full strength after my surgery, I still have this hip injury to deal with.<\/p>\n
Right now, Zwift is doing their Tour of Watopia, a series of 7 rides that takes you through all of their courses (I think).\u00a0 It’s a pretty cool challenge, and while I’m not sure I will be able to complete it due to scheduling (and also some of the legs are super hard), I figured I would try the first leg.<\/p>\n
The great thing about the challenge is that it’s not a race.\u00a0 It’s not about how fast you go.\u00a0 You just have to cover the course.\u00a0 Which is good, because I wasn’t fast to begin with and dealing with an injury and surgery recovery, well… yeah.<\/p>\n
(Thankfully, the programmers at Zwift are nice and no matter how slow I went, they never made my avatar fall over, which is exactly what would have happened if I were actually riding at that speed on some of those steep climbs.)<\/p>\n
I made it through the first leg taking it easy, not pushing, and just riding at a comfortable level.\u00a0 It took forever<\/em>, but that’s okay.\u00a0 Also according to the stats, I wasn’t last.\u00a0 And most importantly, it didn’t hurt.<\/p>\n At first.<\/p>\n My muscles were not prepared for this workout.\u00a0 While I made it through with no pain, just some fatigue, a few hours later, I was sore<\/span>.\u00a0 Super sore.\u00a0 Do not recommend.\u00a0 Of course, some of this was my own fault – if I had stretched just a bit more or not done the workout so late in the evening and walked around more following the ride, things may have been better.<\/p>\n But it was a good reminder that I’m not back to full force just yet.\u00a0 No regrets, of course.\u00a0 And I’m still going to push the workouts (though I don’t know that I’m going to finish Tour of Watopia, because one of the legs has almost 4500 feet of climbing and that’s a lot).\u00a0 But I’m also making a point to remember to take rest days when I need them.\u00a0 Slow and steady.\u00a0 Slow and steady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know what?\u00a0 Easing back in is hard.\u00a0 Because even though I’m well on my way to being back to full strength after my surgery, I still have this hip injury to deal with. Right now, Zwift is doing their Tour of Watopia, a series of 7 rides that takes you through all of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n