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    Tips & TricksTraining & Nutrition

    How To (Almost) Kill Yourself (Really) On a Smart Trainer

    Michael Skinner
    By Michael Skinner
    March 24, 2021
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    “The CT scan indicates you have…”

    What?  Seriously?  That can’t be…I’m a cyclist!  Well, I didn’t actually say those things when the doctor conveyed the news.  But I did think them, along with Samuel Johnson’s famous line about how news of one’s upcoming execution concentrates the mind rather wonderfully.

    A Little Background….

    I’m a lifelong cyclist living in the cycling paradise of Victoria, Canada.  Never a competitor, just another person who loves the freedom of two quiet wheels and a long road on a sunny morning.  That pretty much described me until almost 13 years ago when neighbour Dave invited me out on a group ride with his club, Tripleshot Cycling. Tagline: Pre-dawn café destination cycling. 

    One exhilarating ride with these fun people was all it took.  After that, it was the usual progression:  first nice carbon road bike, then a winter training bike, Bike Shed 1.0, wife tired of being a cycling widow and gets nice road bike(s) too, son gets into serious cycling, along with his buddies, daughters join the peloton, N+1 additional bikes, Bike Shed 2.0, family reunions built around cycling, vacations the same. 

    And lots of Tripleshot rides.  The club started over 20 years ago as a group of cycling physicians called the Spin Doctors.  One enduring benefit of this origin is that there’s usually a doc or two on most rides: when I got sloppy in 2015 on a fast Friday ride, overlapped wheels and went down hard, I had a couple of ER docs checking me over in less than two minutes.

    In the first two months of 2020 my wife and I did a home exchange/cycling holiday to Tucson – our first time in Arizona.  We fell in love with the Sonoran desert, the welcoming bike clubs, and the seeming endless mixed-used trails and exciting mountain climbs including the legendary Mt. Lemmon. 

    All of this is to say that the past 12 years featured a lot of cycling, and that doesn’t include winter spin classes and workouts at the local Y.  I had done Maui’s Mt. Haleakala four times (never quickly, I might add), Gran Fondos and “Big Rides” (275 kms/day) so I thought I was in good shape.  And I was.  But I had no idea about a quiet, patient assassin lurking in the shadows (cue ominous music).

    COVID + Cycling = Zwift

    With COVID came the early 2020 border shutdowns;  we drove home from Arizona just under the wire in the first few days of March.   When it became obvious that the Canada/US border would remain closed for at least 2020 (no return to Arizona!) and the infection risk would be high, my wife had an idea.  “You have a hard time with Victoria winters (winter darkness, grey skies, rain, occasional snowfall), so why don’t you get one of those smart trainers?”  “I’m on it.  Consider it done”, I replied. 

    My wise wife also suggested this in the middle of summer, which gave me time to order equipment before the mad global scramble in the fall.  I managed to assemble the entire Wahoo trainer ecosystem, along with a nice 4K video unit to stare at (the tv was the least expensive component).

    My Zwift setup

    Then came the Zwift subscription.  I loved it.  Every ride was a learning experience – and remains so now.  My avatar is a much better bike handler than I’ll ever be, taking steep hairpin turns at 80 kph.  My job is to manage my limited energy in the face of the “Zwift Effect” where (almost) every ride is a race.  I quickly realized that I was a tiny fish in a very big pond:  although I rode B1 with Tripleshot – a brisk, respectable pace – Zwift was different.   With a global talent pool, trying to hang with the leaders on any Zwift ride for more than a few minutes was like trying to win the Friday A group road ride at home.  Not happening. 

    Building Me Up

    But I could at least try to build my watts/kg with Zwift’s training programs… and what better program than “Build Me Up”?  These rides produced results, although they did feel fairly punishing, (Dylan Johnson has some insightful thoughts on Zwift training plans; his video is worth a watch) and even in an unheated Canadian bike shed the sweat was prodigious. 

    I now had something to challenge me from November to March.  That, and of course the pleasant distractions like FOCUS: Colors of Pari, Tour of New York, and the Black Celebration Series.

    As February approached I did my best to keep up with the training program but found that the most I could manage were the 90 minute sessions, and those were tough.  I didn’t even try the handful of pre-graduation 2-hour sessions with their extreme demands.  The fact that I could for the most part hit the watts/cadence numbers with my KICKR in erg mode made me think the training was working and I was getting fitter (a dangerous assumption).  I was pushing myself hard.

    Course “Graduation day” approached in early February, with the FTP test that would show exactly how much my Functional Threshold Power had increased since early November.  I focused on getting some extra rest and good nutrition before the session.  During the test it felt like whatever power I generated was just moving my legs rather than making watts.  Try as I might, with a herculean effort I couldn’t hit my November FTP number. 

    That didn’t seem right – why was I going backwards?

    What’s Happening?

    When you’re confronted with screens of data – Zwift is good at that – the tendency is to go into analysis mode if things don’t go as planned.  Perhaps it was technique:  maybe I went too hard too soon? Have I overtrained?  Looks like I need to carry on and get some more data!

    So, more rides – get some rest and push hard again!  Except that an 80 minute ride ridden at a Zwift C to C+ pace left me feeling more dragged out than ever, with a week (rather than the usual day) of recovery time needed before I wanted to go anywhere near the bike shed [CLUE].  After several of these experiences I was dragging myself around the house, feeling progressively more exhausted [CLUE].  Cycling indoors or out held no attraction. [CLUE]

    With this deteriorating condition, my thoughts turned to the most high-profile suspect:  I had somehow contracted COVID-19.  While the numbers on Vancouver Island have always been low relative to the rest of Canada (being on an island helps), we still have daily infections and the occasional death.  I seemed to meet the symptom criteria for testing so booked the drive-through gargle test (much nicer, I’m told, than having your brain flossed).  The results were online that same afternoon:  Negative.   

    Ok, what now?  That night, around 3 am, I told my wife that with the heaviness in my chest I was convinced I had pneumonia (self-diagnosis.  I studied law, not medicine).  The way I was feeling, I thought staying in bed wouldn’t help much – it would be just as good sitting in emergency where someone could have a listen to my chest.  (My first good idea so far!)

    A Hospital Visit

    3am was a great time to avoid the usual lineups at Royal Jubilee Hospital emergency department a few minutes up the road.  The triage nurse took a quick listen to my chest then said, “Follow me.”  What happened after that was a rapid succession of chest x-ray, ECG, blood samples, more examinations, insertion of an IV connector (good to have it should the need arise suddenly). 

    It was clear to the staff: I had a heart issue.  Heart?  Not even on my radar.  The following day came an ultrasound echocardiogram (fascinating to see my heart valves flapping) and a CT scan where I got the fateful news: 100% blockage in the right coronary artery. 

    Terrifying information, yet the docs felt I probably had no permanent heart damage given my general fitness level and “athletic heart” from cycling (45 bpm resting rate that set off the “Low HR” monitor alarm beside my bed) that likely also developed a robust collateral circulation system.  A similar blockage in the left coronary artery  – called the widowmaker, if it’s at the junction where the left artery splits into two branches – might have meant I wouldn’t have been here to write this. 

    Perhaps the most important factor in avoiding serious heart damage was the fact that I had not tried to “tough it out” – getting out of bed and coming in was the right call.  (Although some would question the wisdom of driving myself to Emergency; then again, I did think it was a respiratory infection.) 

    Two days later came the angioplasty:  an assembly-line procedure with dozens just like me waiting their turn.  Local anaesthetic at the wrist, insertion of a guide and probe directed by real-time X-ray in the radial artery snaking through the arm and shoulder to the heart, inflation of a balloon catheter at the blockage followed immediately by implanting a tubular drug-coated wire stent to hold the artery open and keep that blood flowing.  In 30 minutes, the lower half of my right coronary artery went from a dry riverbed to a fully flowing river of pulsing life.  

    The doc had made an interesting observation before the procedure:  “This blockage has probably been developing for the last several decades.”  And all this time I thought my lungs were my weak point. 

    My Takeaways from this Experience

    #1: Assumptions are Dangerous

    Athletes may be the last to realize they have heart disease or recognize their symptoms (says T. Jared Bunch, MD,  who directs heart rhythm research at the University of Utah). 

    This truth is worth one more anecdote to prove Dr. Bunch’s point: a recently-retired doc buddy of mine has a brother who is by all accounts an elite amateur cyclist:  25,000 km/yr average (that’s 15,000+ USA miles!), ultra-endurance races, you know the type.  Lives on the bike.  This fellow calls up his doc brother and says, “I’m just not getting much out of my workouts.  Like I have no energy.  I’ve got this heavy pressure in my chest, and weird stuff like pain in my jaw when I’m going up stairs.  What’s going on?” To which my doc friend replied (I’m paraphrasing): “Dude, do you want to call 911, or should I?  Get your ass to emergency RIGHT NOW!” 

    This athlete is a highly intelligent fellow (practicing lawyer) but, like the probable majority of extremely fit individuals, had a blind spot when it came to acknowledging his own symptoms.  Yes, he had a significant coronary blockage.

    #2: Pay attention when something out of the ordinary happens

    Unexpected lingering exhaustion, unusually long recovery times, etc should be red flags. Consider following this up with your doctor.  In a data-rich environment like Zwift, performance numbers that are in decline or going in reverse (combined with a physical feeling that’s “something’s not quite right”) may be a clue.  Listen to your body and don’t rationalize the matter away like a typical cyclist!

    #3: Learn the signs of cardiac issues

    Again, don’t self-diagnose like I did!  And it’s worth noting that for women, these signs can be more subtle and difficult to analyze.  But you don’t have to take my word for it:  take a few minutes to digest the summary that follows. 

    And with this new awareness (and maybe an overdue medical checkup?)… Ride On!   

    Warning signs of a heart attack 

    (source: secondscount.org)

    Many heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts longer than a few minutes or that goes away and comes back. It can feel like:

    • Uncomfortable pressure
    • Squeezing
    • Fullness
    • Stabbing pain

    However, not all heart attacks are proceeded by chest pain.

     Heart attack symptoms include:

    • Chest discomfort
    • Discomfort in other areas of the upper body:  one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw, or stomach
    • Shortness of breath with or without chest discomfort
    • Pounding heart or changes in heart rhythm
    • Heartburn, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain
    • Breaking out in a cold sweat
    • Dizziness or lightheadedness

    Warning signs of heart attacks in women

    These heart attack symptoms are more common in women. They may occur without chest pain. 

    • Sudden onset of weakness
    • Shortness of breath
    • Nausea, vomiting, indigestion
    • Body aches
    • Overall feeling of illness
    • Unusual feeling or mild discomfort in the back, chest, arm, neck, or jaw (Remember, these may occur without chest pain and still be a heart attack)
    • Sleep disturbance

    People who have diabetes or are elderly may also experience atypical heart attack symptoms.

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      Michael Skinner
      Michael Skinner
      Michael is a semi-retired administrative law specialist who would rather Zwift than ride in the rain, hence his Tripleshot handle, “FairweatherMike”. Living in Victoria, British Columbia, he also uses that other human-powered transport, his kayak.

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      Harry Roberts
      Harry Roberts(@harryroberts)
      1 year ago

      Would love to hear the “After” story. How did/have things gone since then?

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      Michael Skinner
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      Michael Skinner(@mskinner)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Harry Roberts

      Overall, things have gone well. This was my first time in hospital and I can no longer answer “no” to the question “are you on any medications?”. I suspect there will be some fine tuning of the post-cardiac cocktail as the meds have several minor but unpleasant side effects. It’s less than 3 weeks since discharge; long walks are the exercise of choice but the bike is not far off!

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      Peter Josefchak
      Peter Josefchak
      1 year ago

      I’ve been in marathoning since 1983. My sense has been that athletes feel
      that as long as they can perform then everything MUST be fine. Wrong! Annual
      medicals, stress tests, blood tests etc etc are not on most training plans. You can be
      fit and/or healthy but the first does not imply the other. People do the
      annual checkups and DO NOT rely on fitness as the yard stick…IMHO…I have many
      stories but I’ll leave them alone….Be safe and well….

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      Peter Higgins
      Peter Higgins(@ibddoctor)
      1 year ago

      Definitely worth watching your performance. Watts and FTP will suffer in workouts long before you are symptomatic climbing a single flight of stairs. The data don’t lie, and in this case, detected a problem early enough to be easily fixed. Most people don’t have the data for this kind of early detection system, but this can be really helpful.

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      Peter Josefchak
      Peter Josefchak
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Peter Higgins

      I agree. The data arising from the Zwift platform can be considered like stress test
      indications (Watts, HR, endurance etc) as values change with no apparent reason, Good metrics to document and then get checked out…

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      Dan
      Dan
      1 year ago

      Very similar story for me. I have been a cyclist for nearly a decade. 2 years ago this month, I was out on a ride, and it felt like someone was pulling on my seat belt. Pressure across the chest, and discomfort across the shoulder blades. It seemed like I was putting in a hard effort, but I wasn’t. Felt dragged down. I cut my ride short, went home, took a shower and a nap. That afternoon, I still felt run down, so I drove myself to the local Emergency Room, where they did the tests. An ER doc came… Read more »

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      ShakeNBakeUK
      ShakeNBakeUK(@bakeuk_2)
      1 year ago

      the reason that athletes have a “blind spot” when it comes to assessing their own health is that they spend the vast majority of their life ignoring/blocking out what their body is telling them and powering on through the pain, which is very good for being competitive but very bad for detecting issues such as heart problems. always worth speaking to a medical professional if anything doesn’t seem right. hopefully in the future we will all be weaing uber-smart watches which monitor heart activity/rhythm 24/7 and can provide early warning alerts for certain conditions (Apple Watch ECG’s are already capable… Read more »

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      rdcyclist (Mark Crane)
      rdcyclist (Mark Crane)(@rdcyclist)
      1 year ago

      I too had a very similar story: Lifelong cyclist (I’ve been riding seriously for more than 50 years), fairly competitive racer at one time, 5 hour century rider, etc. Six months after I turned 60, I noticed my HR ceiling dropping and some chest discomfort. As a typical white American male, I figured taking it easy for a month or so would do the trick. It didn’t so I went to the Cardiologist. EKG looked good, stress test EKG looked good, bloodwork looked good so the doc signed me up for a CT Calcium Test Score inspection. There was more… Read more »

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      PRSboy
      PRSboy
      1 year ago

      Fascinating article- thanks for sharing your story, which contains excellent advice for all of us!

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      Robert Munro
      Robert Munro
      1 year ago

      I go well over the rule of thumb max HR every time I ride. It doesn’t cause me any discomfort so should I worry?

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      Peter Josefchak
      Peter Josefchak
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Robert Munro

      The person to ask would be your doctor. He/she knows you best…IMHO

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      Crankenstein
      Crankenstein
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Robert Munro

      Those rule of thumb formulas for max heart rate work for most people but when they are off they can be off by quite a bit (as in 10 to 20 bpm). If you are not experiencing any other symptoms you probably have nothing to worry about. But. If you haven’t had a checkup recently or discussed this with your doctor now would be the time to do so. Elevated heart rates under stress in general can sometimes indicate other underlying issues. It wouldn’t hurt to mention that and/or ask for a blood workup or monitored stress test next time… Read more »

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      Ralph H
      Ralph H
      1 year ago

      So…I am the brother of the doctor mentioned. From childhood until the day I retired, (read terminated), I rode my bike to work every day, rain, snow, sleet, dead of night, no exceptions. (Well, if there was too much snow my gear cluster froze and I stopped if the portages over snow drifts were too long because my shoes got wrecked and I am a cheapskate, always road a road bike, no snow tires as I figured the skinny tire cuts through snow better.) My first symptom was doing a 5 hour ride on Zwift just after I got it,… Read more »

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      Michael Skinner
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      Michael Skinner(@mskinner)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Ralph H

      “Now my problem is the beta blockers which have reduced performance considerably.”

      Well, Ralph, reduced performance seems preferable to, uh, zero performance. As Mark Crane (one of the replies above) put it so well, “I’ve lost about 13BPM off my max HR but it sure beats the pants off losing 190BPM…”

      Sorry about the two month wait for the procedure. You should move to the island!

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      Alastair G Cooper
      Alastair G Cooper
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Michael Skinner

      Beta blockers require a TUE so it might not be them!

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      Phil
      Phil
      1 year ago

      I’ve been cycling and racing (Time Trials) for over 40yrs, I have lost count of the number of friends with a similar history who have a heart problem of one sort or another, and to everyone of them it came as a shock – take care everyone and if something seems wrong GET IT CHECKED OUT

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      Dan Kapsak
      Dan Kapsak
      1 year ago

      Sounds familiar! thanks to cycling, a heart attack in March 2019, further catheterization in May, and then September 2020–a six-pack in my heart, but still being seen and not viewed, and still riding (aiming at 4k miles this year).

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      Rick Dorrington
      Rick Dorrington
      1 year ago

      Thanks for this. As an indestructible 60 year old cyclist doing the regular centuries, it’s a good reminder that sometimes you need to pay attention. Good health to you.

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      Adam Johnston
      Adam Johnston
      1 year ago

      For those with heart issues, how are your teeth? Any root canals, crowns or aching teeth? Over a year ago, I was suffering with sharp jolts of chest pain during Zwift sessions that would cause me to stop. After finding a really good holistic medical doctor in Mill Valley, CA, it was found that I had a tooth infection that was dragging down my overall health. A dentist removed the molar but the arrhythmias continued. I then saw an oral surgeon, who through a “Cone Beam X-Ray”, found a massive sinus infection right above the extraction site that the dentist… Read more »

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      Otto
      Otto
      1 year ago

      Well,…2 heart attacks and 5 stents made me jump back on the bike (doctors orders) after 25 years of doing almost nothing. I discoverd Zwift because of it and I just got promoted to C-cat. It made me reconsider what really is important and enjoying life to the fullest now!👍

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      David White (NZ)
      David White (NZ)
      1 year ago

      Thanks, Michael, for raising this important matter. For variation, here’s my slightly different story… I’ve been mountain-biking about 6 years and Zwifting since 6 months before lockdown. In December 2020 I had 2 occasions when riding that I experienced a “minor ache” in the region of the lower tip of my breastbone (sternum). Once was on Zwift, doing a gentle group ride after a sprint race. The other was during a crosscountry MTB ride. In both cases, the ache went away when I let my HR come down. It took a friend to convince me to see my doc.  A… Read more »

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      David White (NZ)
      David White (NZ)
      10 months ago
      Reply to  David White (NZ)

      Follow-up: 9 days ago, I had a heart attack. It felt like might pressure on the chest that would arise when my HR exceeded 130bpm on Zwift, but dissipated on slowing down. However, an hour after my Zwift session, sitting at a desk, the chest ache returned. Danger! Ambulance. Hospital. 2x stents. All in <90 minutes. Now I'm figuring out how much to exercise, and what is my max HR?

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      Tom
      Tom
      1 year ago

      I had a similar experience, in January did a long ride on Zwift with two big climbs, there was a sprint towards the end and I normally do not go for the sprints. But for some reason that day I did, and I went all out. After the ride I didn’t feel well, had some light pressure on my chest, but not in the center. Also, sensation up neck towards jaw that came and went quickly. Symptoms all went away after settling down so didn’t do anything. Note, symptoms going away when exercise stops is a warning sign! Rode some… Read more »

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      Bill
      Bill
      1 year ago

      This sounds like the problem I’ve had for a couple years now–athletes are good at ignoring pain. I’ll be going in tomorrow for an EKG. I think my company would be REALLY disappointed if drop dead while Zwifting! 😅 Thank you for sharing–I am certain you are saving lives… maybe mine.

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      Josh
      Josh
      1 year ago

      Very interesting. Just did not understand why choose to go to a hospital at 3:00am in order to avoid queues. It might seem like you´re hacking the system but that´s just unnecessary and you might not be attended as well as if you were visiting on normal hours.

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      Joe
      Joe
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Josh

      I think he was just cracking a joke about lines at 3am and not actually choosing to go in at that time to avoid them.

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      Mike
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      Mike(@mskinner)
      1 year ago
      Reply to  Joe

      No, Josh and Joe, I was serious. I speak from experience, having waited many hours at emergency in the past! Although a middle-age male with chest pains will typically go to the front of the triage line regardless of the lineup, it is still good to go when things are quiet. The quality of care and availability of technical resources is the same regardless of the time of day, and extra specialists are on call 24/7 as necessary. I wasn’t hacking the system, just applying lessons learned over the years!

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      Paul
      Paul
      1 year ago

      Nice story – I had similar – 100% block in artery that serves front of the heart and a 80% lesion in an intermediate artery – only symptom was indigestion (oh and btw I have worked in cardiology for over 20 yrs..) – both arteries open now and fitter than I’ve been in years – zero limitation to my functional ability ! Good luck with your journey

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      Oliver Radermacher
      Oliver Radermacher
      1 year ago

      Thank you. Great article and great comments below. I think I should really see the doc, no chest pains or something like this, but my breath becomes shorter when exercising since a few months. Always thought this should be caused by my lungs, but now I do think twice. Thanks all fort his great community!!!

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      Alastair G Cooper
      Alastair G Cooper
      1 year ago

      It’s not always actual heart disease that can do this either. In 2016 age 36 I had a heart attack that was caused by coronary dissection. This means the artery was split and blood was pooling and clotting, squeezing the artery near shut. I was on a vigorous group ride at the time, and I felt like I just had zero power. I was riding so slowly and bring dropped by we kids had passed! kids! I put this down to not being recovered from a serious flu I had about a month earlier, so in the end I told… Read more »

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      Joel B
      Joel B
      4 months ago

      Thank you for this article. I got into Zwift after my first heart attack – story almost identical to yours (RCA, collateral formation, etc) except substitute running for cycling. I saw my times go down – must be age. Or injury. Or something else. Unfortunately, the stent installed after the MI in my LAD (widow maker) formed a clot and closed, leading to my second heart attack 3.5 years later – I am lucky to be able to write this. Luckily for me, I was on the ice at the time (hockey player also) and they had all the protocols… Read more »

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      Mike Skinner
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      4 months ago
      Reply to  Joel B

      Thank you for your kind words, Joel. I’m delighted if this article played any part in helping you to navigate the post-MI world. I’m glad you’re here! (“Glad to be anywhere” as the old joke goes) As to your question: I’m not aware of any rehab program on Zwift. If anything, Zwift seems geared toward the individual with no physical limitations who is open to being pushed to their very limit and beyond! I refer of course to the Zwift Effect – every ride, even at the lowest advertised W/kg., seems to carry the seeds of a race. Having said… Read more »

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