Beyond the obvious physical pain tolerance and general health dimensions that you’re no doubt gauging your recovery by, be mindful of your body’s internal adaptation to whatever situation it’s now working with going forward. Not sure if you’ve had an entire kidney removed (or just sections), but take it from a guy whose small intestine had to learn to pick up the duties of the suddenly absent large intestine: there’s a bit of a transition period before the body adapts (and may never operate at 100% normal). If this is your situation, be mindful about the organ function and try to see how it behaves over time before throwing it into the deep end (in particularly with respect to hydration).
Removed all of the left kidney. Have decided to limit myself to 4 hours in the heat going forward and to follow a strict hydration protocol on the bike. Blood pressure is stabilized, maybe a little lower than before, but it was always good. Bowles, after being shoved around and narc’d up for a few days are getting more normal. I feel like my glycogen stores are low if I go over a half hour. That used be a rare event after a few hours on the bike, so something is going on there. Excited to face this challenge and read my body/data to get back at it in a smart way.
I was 4 weeks out when I got on the trainer, and will wait 6 weeks until I ride outside. A new bike I ordered arrived at week 2. I am not declaring new bike day until I can actually ride it!