I'm a cyclist too.....

[fossyant]

Well, keep your doctor. He is at least able to understand fit and healthy people.

My previous doc was overweight and never exercised so the fact I was commuting over 25 miles a day by bike, there was nothing wrong with me.

 

[Fnaar]

"Would you like me to check the integrity of your rim?"

 

[SteCenturion]

Does carbon melt in rain ?

 

[SteCenturion]

Hows your crank(ing) arm ?

 

[Ganymede]

My doc is a road cyclist too. I lurve him. Also it means there is a proper Sheffield-stand bike rack outside the surgery with a shelter over it. Yay!

 

[Fnaar]

I may be able to fix your seized calipers.

Cough, while I hold your bottom bracket (etc etc)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Regarding Doctors; a few of our Consultants ride in

Andrew ('Elderly Medicine') = doesn't own a car, another Doctor told me that he doesn't even have a driving licence!
Phil (Cardiologist) = rides in most days, & has does a couple of Sportives a year in the Alps/Pyrenees
Paul (Cardiologist) = rides 2-3 days a week (25 mile , hilly, commute)
Paddy (Anaesthetist) = Triathlete
Dave (Radiologist) = 2 -3 times a week
Tony (A&E) = rides a few times per month (20 miles commute?)
Dave (A&E) = rides in, in good weather

 

[Ganymede]

Regarding Docotrs; a few of our Consultants ride in

Andrew ('Elderly Medicine') = doesn't own a car, another Doctor told me that he doesn't even have a driving licence!
Phil (Cardiologist) = rides in most days, & has does a couple of Sportives a year in the Alps/Pyrenees
Paul (Cardiologist) = rides 2-3 days a week (25 mile , hilly, commute)
Paddy (Anaesthetist) = Triathlete
Dave (Radiologist) = 2 -3 times a week
Tony (A&E) = rides a few times per month (20 miles commute?)
Dave (A&E) = rides in, in good weather

Henry Marsh of "Do No Harm" fame is also a regular cyclist. He is very keen on activity as a means to maintain brain function. His fave story is the lifecycle of the seasquirt. It has a brain in its initial stages, but once it attaches to a rock it never moves again and reabsorbs its brain as it is of no further use...

It is a brilliant book, by the way: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21086818-do-no-harm

 

[Saluki]

My doc is a road cyclist too. I lurve him. Also it means there is a proper Sheffield-stand bike rack outside the surgery with a shelter over it. Yay!

My doc thinks that I'm mental and told me so. Just a few seconds before she suggested taking up some exercise.

 

[Cuchilo]

My doc thinks that I'm mental and told me so.

You do know that when the doctor says that it isn't the same as your friends saying it don't you

 

[Mo1959]

It's reassuring being treated by a doctor that cycles too. I always feel that they at least have a better idea of the frustrations an injury or illness causes us.

Lucky around here as there are at least two doctors in my practice that cycle and run, so I usually ask to see one of them if it is exercise related.

 

[Saluki]

You do know that when the doctor says that it isn't the same as your friends saying it don't you

I will have you know, that I have a certificate to say that I am perfectly sane. Whatever my parents might have thought.

 

[vickster]

My GP thinks I'd be better off sticking to riding indoors...in my case, she's probably right

 

[Markymark]

I will have you know, that I have a certificate to say that I am perfectly sane. Whatever my parents might have thought.

Yeah but you wrote it in ketchup on the side of the house so it doesn't really count......

 

[Saluki]

Yeah but you wrote it in ketchup on the side of the house so it doesn't really count......

Bugger! Busted