Yes, I'm a marathon runner and long-distance cyclist and still active. Currently, I go to work by bike which is a commute of 26 km through the forest one way. I'm participating in a programme called "Go to work by bike" or "bike and business" funded by the ADFC - the General German Cycling Association and one German health insurance company. Employers can sign up for this programme and encourage their employees to take part. I've done over 500 km altogether this year.
My last half marathon was in February, and I got a better result than last year: 2 hours 10 minutes. During my last full (forest) marathon last August, I partly had to walk, however, not because of my hip but due to extremely hot & sunny weather and not having quite the training standard back (after I had to stop exercising and get my hip replaced in 2015). I have already registered for that marathon again and am planning to jog throught the entire 42 km.
It's been over 2 years since my hip replacement but I don't feel that I'm wearing it out. I believe in enjoying the 'here and now' rather than wondering what will happen when I'm 83. This is the age until which - as one surgeon told me - my hip should last, but I don't mind having a revision a few years sooner. Besides, I read about a Japanese study on the internet involving competitive runners with artificial hips that says there is no evidence that competitive running will cause their hips to wear out thus requiring a revision.
While I might still be alive in my 70s and 80s, I might be too lazy for jogging and cycling by then, but now I'm still active.
Of course my op was a single hip replacement (left). I can't give you any advice on bilateral hip replacements, but it should be exactly the same except on both sides (?).
Good luck with your job as a recruitment instructor.
Constanze
United States
). I take it you didn't have a THR after your posts last year, but now your consultant has called you in for a catch-up? My orthopod wants xrays no older than 6mths so I should think he'll need some recent ones. Why are you trying to make your troublesome hip go for another year? Well, I can understand the fear that a replacement might not be as good as 'the real thing', but honestly, is your real one up to scratch? And is it not getting worse? I'm just coming up to my first THR and am finding it a bit confronting, but I think I'm even more scared by the thought of how much worse it will get if I ignore it. And from everything I've read, the earlier you get it done the quicker you recover and the better the result will be. I think the consensus on pain relief is that virtually nothing will alleviate oa pain except for the op, and if you were taking really hard-core ones like opiates, you might not be a very good trainer! Everything I've read leads me to believe that you'll still be able to carry on with your job, as long as you are patient and allow the new hipto recover in its own time. I believe it was Mojo who said that the only thing her surgeon told her not to do is bungee jumping, and that probably doesn't feature much in a day's work even for firemen 
)). I was trying to say: You will be able to continue with your dreamjob including the active service, not only insructing, because your new hips will be better than the old ones. They will work whereas the old ones just half work. I took up running again 13 weeks after my op - phased it in slowly of course - run-walk-run at first and then slowly increasing the distance. I'm now back to marathoning and half marathons 2 3/4 years post op. Completed a winter half-marathon in the forest in February. My result was 2 hours and 4 minutes, almost as good as my best result in a life-time ever. My posture while running is better than preoop and I have my muscle strength back - after my muscles had atrophied because wrong use due to the pain.
