Uhoh...
Still on a high from yesterday's race and feeling really good this morning I went out for a long ride today aiming for about 60km. My right cycling shoe hadn't been feeling quite right so I fiddled with the cleats before I went and pulled them forward a bit so my foot was a bit further back on the pedal.
The ride was going really well for the first 40km, I was under 1:30 (26km/hr) which is really good for me but as I passed the city and headed out to Toowong I started to get some pain in the bottom of my right shin. I thought it would pass, and I've had so many problems on my long rides and didn't want to lose another one, so I pushed on but by the time I got to uni it was realllllly bad.
I was now 48km into the ride and 16km from home... not good! So I turned around and just decided to cruise home as easily as possible but when I got back to Southbank (56km) and got up out of my saddle for a climb my knee buckled and started to hurt as well. By now it was clear I had done something serious so I got off and walked to the nearest cab rank and got a taxi home.
It's still sore now so I'm icing it and cursing my stupidity for pushing on when it wasn't feeling right. More importantly I'm also hoping I haven't jeopardized the Noosa half...
Obviously I'm going to have to take the bike back to the shop for a refit, but in the meantime the next two days are swimming and then rest days so I'll have time to leave it and see what happens...
The ride was going really well for the first 40km, I was under 1:30 (26km/hr) which is really good for me but as I passed the city and headed out to Toowong I started to get some pain in the bottom of my right shin. I thought it would pass, and I've had so many problems on my long rides and didn't want to lose another one, so I pushed on but by the time I got to uni it was realllllly bad.
I was now 48km into the ride and 16km from home... not good! So I turned around and just decided to cruise home as easily as possible but when I got back to Southbank (56km) and got up out of my saddle for a climb my knee buckled and started to hurt as well. By now it was clear I had done something serious so I got off and walked to the nearest cab rank and got a taxi home.
It's still sore now so I'm icing it and cursing my stupidity for pushing on when it wasn't feeling right. More importantly I'm also hoping I haven't jeopardized the Noosa half...
Obviously I'm going to have to take the bike back to the shop for a refit, but in the meantime the next two days are swimming and then rest days so I'll have time to leave it and see what happens...
posted by owen at 8:37 pm
2 Comments:
Uhoh.....It's always a fine line - it's hard to work out if a niggle is something that you need to listen or push through. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery for you - keep icing!
gee mate - not sure what technical thingy it was that caused your leg to injure like that. Guess cleat placement is a little more important than the slap-it-together way I've approached it in the past. Hope it sorts it self soon.
btw - thanks for the photos of the valve-thingy
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