I'm hoping someone will have some advice to help this. I'm 36, overweight (5'9"/175cm - 240lbs/108kg) most of my riding lately is road on a hybrid, but also some MTBing.
Here's the relevant history: Last summer I was riding a lot and playing a lot of tennis. By fall I was having significant RIGHT knee pain and in October I stopped both activities in order to heal up. Since I was doing both I don't know what the cause of my pain was. Fast forward to spring this year...Knees feel better, started doing both activities again, but mostly tennis, just a few rides here and there. Knees are fine through all of the spring tennis season. Beginning of May I start riding a lot (4 rides a week...a lot for me right now) as I'm between tennis seasons. As of yesterday afternoon, still no knee pain at all, on or off the bike. I go to my first tennis practice of summer season last evening. Within minutes I'm feeling some pretty nasty LEFT knee pain. Bad enough that I have to quit early. I feel it in the middle and back of my knee. And it feels "tendon-y". Less than a month ago I was playing tennis 2-3 times a week with no problems.
All the extra biking lately leads me to think that's what caused it. But I've felt no pain while riding, or at all until last night. After I went home I took some ibuprofen and an hour or 2 later my knee felt fine. Still good as of now. Took the day off of either activity and I plan on doing a shorter ride tomorrow (10-20 miles) and then maybe hit a few tennis balls to see if the pain comes back.
Have any of you experienced cycling related knee pain that only hurts when doing other activities? I have a theory that I'm going to look into. My hybrid bike has eggbeater pedals and my left foot has been unclipping unexpectedly on occasion lately. It makes me wonder if I might have the cleat misaligned making my foot misaligned. Maybe it's putting my foot a little too much toe-out and heel-in, and my foot is fighting the misalignment and pushing my heel out causing me to unclip. I hope that made sense. I'll investigate that when I get home.
Thoughts?
Here's the relevant history: Last summer I was riding a lot and playing a lot of tennis. By fall I was having significant RIGHT knee pain and in October I stopped both activities in order to heal up. Since I was doing both I don't know what the cause of my pain was. Fast forward to spring this year...Knees feel better, started doing both activities again, but mostly tennis, just a few rides here and there. Knees are fine through all of the spring tennis season. Beginning of May I start riding a lot (4 rides a week...a lot for me right now) as I'm between tennis seasons. As of yesterday afternoon, still no knee pain at all, on or off the bike. I go to my first tennis practice of summer season last evening. Within minutes I'm feeling some pretty nasty LEFT knee pain. Bad enough that I have to quit early. I feel it in the middle and back of my knee. And it feels "tendon-y". Less than a month ago I was playing tennis 2-3 times a week with no problems.
All the extra biking lately leads me to think that's what caused it. But I've felt no pain while riding, or at all until last night. After I went home I took some ibuprofen and an hour or 2 later my knee felt fine. Still good as of now. Took the day off of either activity and I plan on doing a shorter ride tomorrow (10-20 miles) and then maybe hit a few tennis balls to see if the pain comes back.
Have any of you experienced cycling related knee pain that only hurts when doing other activities? I have a theory that I'm going to look into. My hybrid bike has eggbeater pedals and my left foot has been unclipping unexpectedly on occasion lately. It makes me wonder if I might have the cleat misaligned making my foot misaligned. Maybe it's putting my foot a little too much toe-out and heel-in, and my foot is fighting the misalignment and pushing my heel out causing me to unclip. I hope that made sense. I'll investigate that when I get home.
Thoughts?