The pain... - Page 2

TomV wrote:

> I have been putting off getting back on a pushbike ( I haven't ridden since they made helmets
> compulsory) to escort my young daughter around until her road sense improves.

C'mon, don't let something as trivial as a h*lmet law get in your way. No excuses. Get back on that
bike and ride, ride, ride! You'll be glad you did.
--
terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://www.terrymorse.com/bike/

Mark, as a newbie myself, perhaps my remarks will help.

Have a medical checkup to ensure that the exercise is OK for you. If so, keep at it, resting every
other day and extending the ride about twenty percent whenever you feel you are up to it. When you
get over about 5 miles a day get a good pair of cycling shorts to protect your bum (as Brits and
NZ'rs say). If you do not like the looks, get a light pair you can wear them under your regular
pants. Using this strategy I came from once around the block to ten miles a day in 6 months. Now my
problem is that the ride takes to much of my time.

Regards, Ernie

Mark Derricutt wrote:

> So after 10 or so years of not riding, and getting hideously unfit, I got a bike last year, but
> somehow never got around to using it much, just replaced the stem to raise the handle bars and oh
> joy - the bike is so much nicer to ride...
>
> Sadly now I feel pain - just rode the bike - 3-4 times further than normal, and steepish hill, I
> was lucky to still stand after I got off the bike :P
>
> All in the name of attempting to get fit I normally just do once around the block, but I
> decided to explore one of the alleyways and looped around the greater "block", not a bad ride,
> apart from the hill, but from there to the flat its all down hill, till the last 10 feet, which is
> another incline - then I have to carry the bike down a path about a story to the flat (the hardest
> part)
>
> Darn my legs giving way on me - hopefully that'll dissapear as I get fitter and increase my leg
> muscles/strength.

On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:49:30 +1300, "Mark Derricutt" <mark@talios.com> wrote:

>So after 10 or so years of not riding, and getting hideously unfit, I got a bike last year, but
>somehow never got around to using it much, just replaced the stem to raise the handle bars and oh
>joy - the bike is so much nicer to ride...

The pain will go away as you ride more. Also, your position on the bike will change as your fitness
increases. So you may end up with that old stem eventually....

Same thing for saddles, as your fitness increases you will be riding longer and likely find a
different seat comfortable.

Its not good to force your body into a racing position on a bicycle until your body is ready for it.

Dont forget to stretch!

G

On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 09:06:51 -0800, Terry Morse wrote:

> Does the pain go away a while after you've been out of bed? If you sit on the floor with your legs
> outstretched and flex your foot, do you feel the pain in your heel? If the answers are yes, you
> may have plantar fasciitis:
>
> http://familydoctor.org/handouts/140.html

Thst does sound very familiar, after being out of bed the pain does go away, I can still feel it
slightly thou, as thou theres a huge bruise or something there.

*goes reads webpage*

On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 13:42:14 +0000, Jon Isaacs wrote:

> One day soon you will be riding along and come to a hill or may a stop sign. You will put the
> hammer down, push hard and you will be amazed at yourself, your body responds and away you go in a
> mad dash of joy.

I'll be more amazed at the day I look down and don't see my stomach :P

Mark

On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:46:34 -0800, Karen Hayward-King <kiwibyrd@yellowsub.net> wrote:

>
>>On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 17:37:03 +1300, TomV wrote:
>>
>>> Your description isn't helping
>>
>>Heh - well, this computer programmer needs more exercise, and I'm assured it gets better... :-)
>
>It does and surprisingly quickly as well :-)

Yeah I know, although cycling seems to be one of the worst for specific pain as you get
back into it.

I get reasonable exercise so general fitness isn't the issue, but the rare occasion I ride a bike
the thighs scream at me, very very loudly.

So I'm a softy

...tom

On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 20:08:48 +0000, GregR wrote:

> The pain will go away as you ride more. Also, your position on the bike will change as your
> fitness increases. So you may end up with that old stem eventually....

Yup - now to remember where I put the old one :-)

Jon Isaacs wrote:One day soon you will be riding along and come to a hill or may a stop sign.

> You will put the hammer down, push hard and you will be amazed at yourself, your body responds and
> away you go in a mad dash of joy.
>
> And then you will be hooked and you will be riding because you like to ride rather than because
> you believe you need to.
>
> jon isaacs
>
> Yes, you can do it

Hear Hear! Well said Jon

"Mark Derricutt" <mark@talios.com> wrote in message
news:5C99F8074A1572B1.D2D87121922369...lp.airnews.net...
> So after 10 or so years of not riding, and getting hideously unfit, I got a bike last year, but
> somehow never got around to using it much, just replaced the stem to raise the handle bars and oh
> joy - the bike is so much nicer to ride...
>
> Sadly now I feel pain - just rode the bike - 3-4 times further than normal, and steepish hill, I
> was lucky to still stand after I got off the bike :P
>
> All in the name of attempting to get fit I normally just do once around the block, but I
> decided to explore one of the alleyways and looped around the greater "block", not a bad ride,
> apart from the hill, but from there to the flat its all down hill, till the last 10 feet, which is
> another incline - then I have to carry the bike down a path about a story to the flat (the hardest
> part)
>
> Darn my legs giving way on me - hopefully that'll dissapear as I get fitter and increase my leg
> muscles/strength.
>
>
I understand your pain! I stopped riding for over 13 years and smoked for most of that time. I was
in miserable shape in every way and rarely felt good. I started riding again January 2000. I
suffered a lot the first year but had a lot of fun too. I thought I would be riding centuries by
June but that didn't happen until 2002. My endurance and speed didn't satisfy me until a year and a
half later. I rode more than 3500 miles last year and am serving as president of my local bike club
this year. I'm feeling better and enjoying my life now far more than ever. Stick with it. You will
become as addicted to bicycling as I am and have the same health benefits and joy that I have found.

"Frank Knox" <jmkfmknospam1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:OiC0a.3180$1q2.314934@newsread2....earthlink.net...
> Stick with it. You will become as addicted to bicycling as I am and have the same health benefits
> and joy that I have found.
>
>

Physicl activity.
Ick.

"Frank Knox" <jmkfmknospam1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:OiC0a.3180$1q2.314934@newsread2....earthlink.net... <snip>
> Stick with it. You will become as addicted to bicycling as I am and have the same health benefits
> and joy that I have found.
>

But there just always seems to be a head wind!!!

I read that scottwallace@free.net.nz said in article <nOL0a.871 $324.153373@news02.tsnz.net>, . . .
> "Frank Knox" <jmkfmknospam1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:OiC0a.3180$1q2.314934@newsread2....earthlink.net... <snip>
> > Stick with it. You will become as addicted to bicycling as I am and have the same health
> > benefits and joy that I have found.
> >
>
> But there just always seems to be a head wind!!!

"For every uphill there is a downhill. For every headwind there is a headwind."

MikeE

"Mike Elliott" <j.michael.elliott@REMOVETHEOBVIOUScoxDOT.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.18ad7ed65faaa8ba9897eb@news.west.cox.net...
> I read that scottwallace@free.net.nz said in article <nOL0a.871
> $324.153373@news02.tsnz.net>, . . .
> > "Frank Knox" <jmkfmknospam1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > news:OiC0a.3180$1q2.314934@newsread2....earthlink.net... <snip>
> > > Stick with it. You will become as addicted to bicycling as I am and
have
> > > the same health benefits and joy that I have found.
> > >
> >
> > But there just always seems to be a head wind!!!
>
> "For every uphill there is a downhill. For every headwind there is a headwind."
>

When I first started commuting I was averaging maybe 24-25 km/h on an 8 km ride. One day it was
really windy, like 12-15 m/s or 25-30 knots. I had to really put my head down and spin much lower
gears just to keep the bike moving. Imagine my surprise upon getting home that I'd averaged almost
30 km/h. This was the day I started learning about what a good cadence does.

--
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Perre

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 18:36:17 GMT, "Per Elmsäter" <perdotelmsater@teliadot.com> wrote:

>One day it was really windy, like 12-15 m/s or 25-30 knots. I had to really put my head down and
>spin much lower gears just to keep the bike moving. Imagine my surprise upon getting home that I'd
>averaged almost 30 km/h. This was the day I started learning about what a good cadence does.

Ah, I remember that. And I remember getting the cadence sorted only to find that my average speed of
20mph was knocked down to under 16mph by the next bastard headwind :-)

So now I ride a recumbent....

Guy
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> "Frank Knox" <jmkfmknospam1@earthlink.net> wrote in message

> news:OiC0a.3180$1q2.314934@newsread2....earthlink.net...
>> Stick with it. You will become as addicted to bicycling as I am and have the same health benefits
>> and joy that I have found.

Addicted? Hmmm. I used to cycle everywhere. I wouldn't flinch of a 50 - 100 k ride some weekends.

But I wouldn't say I was addicted. Not now that I couldn't be arsed to ride because of the gravel
roads around here.
:-)

PAM.