Originally Posted by
eduskator
Therapy. Joking aside (not really), do you really need to stop completely for health reason or just stop pushing hard because your body can't handle it?
I see lots of elderly people riding their bikes at a snail pace and they seem to enjoy it.
Originally Posted by
rsbob
Perhaps an e-bike will keep you on the road and your heart rate down.
You never went into specifics about your health concern, so people, like me, are just shotgunning. If you could provide more info, the suggestions might be more relevant
it’s complicated, but the simple explanation is that it is very likely that any exercise damages my heart. i have a very nice road e-bike, and have for a while, but having known the joy of hard rides, and especially long spirited rides through amazing scenery, i have found it impossible so far to either truly enjoy casually pedaling an e-bike and limiting myself to short rides that don’t take me far from home. i really miss it and this thread in part came from realizing that all the evidence of those days, the talk about rides, bikes, seeing people out there on bikes headed towards great rides just makes it worse. maybe cold turkey is the way to go, or maybe i can learn to enjoy what I (probably) can safely do, which is short rides at very low intensity. I don’t think that’s in my nature, I tend to either do something a whole lot or not at all.