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Turns out a recent accident did more damage than I realised - was hit by a car and broke 6 ribs - as the rib pain was so intense I was on a lot of strong pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs, so never noticed the “lesser injury” of torn cartilage in my knee.
Can’t ride or run without serious pain, even swimming is pretty bad, and due to the time of year am likely to not have any chance at surgery until late Jan - Feb at the earliest
So I’m looking for options to keep my fitness up without cycling, running, or swimming.
I really don’t want to lose the fitness I have built this year

I only started cycling in January this year, the decision was that if I was to stop smoking then I should not only stop something destructive but should also add something good.
With that in mind I started to ride my crappy old hardtail mtb, that lasted 6 weeks before I broke a pedal and went to my lbs for some new pedals, and returned home with an entry level road bike - 2018 Merida Ride 300.
This was a huge change, I had never gone so fast on a bike or so far, however it didn't take long before I had a sore ass and started looking for padded shorts for to go under my usual shorts. My wife and friends all made the typical jokes, "next thing you'll want a computer" "you'll be wearing Ly