Originally Posted by
Loose Chain
Congrats on stopping smoking but the damage is done and never will be undone, your lungs will never operate like they would have now if you had not smoked all of your life. Just be glad you do not have emphysema and cannot ride or walk at all and instead have an O2 tube in your nose which is were many smokers wind up.
Bulls*it. I smoked a pack a day for over 5 years. 10 years after my last cigarette I have no problem averaging >19mph over a 35 mile course and >18mph over 50miles. On a hybrid -- a Trek 7.5FX. I can also run a 10k in <46 minutes, which is more taxing on my lungs than any of the above.
I don't know if your post is a pathetic attempt at humor or something else, but it is off base and mean spirited.