Hello all,
Lately I've been experiencing pain on the outside of my left leg. I thought at first it might have been the running that I've started to do (thinking about doing a sprint tri) so I stopped that for a while. That has not changed my condition at the moment. After about 2 hours I can start to feel the pain. It really does not matter if I hammer hard or just spin, it just starts to hurt. I went to my doctor and he moved my knee every sort of direction but I experienced no pain. The only time I did was when I started to bend my knee back and then forward. I can put weight on it without issue and after a day my knee is back to normal. I've been riding steadily now for about 6 months and and put about 2000 miles. I really have not done any sort of structured training until the start of this year when I started to do some of the spinervals in hopes to be a better climber. Anyhow, I did some research and thought my changing my position might do some help but I thought I would just ask to see if anyone else had similar issues. I've also started to do some ITB specific stretching. I do know that I can't exceed 2 hours, since the first the pain happened I was into the third hour of training ride when the pain become unbearable and I still had to climb Torrey Pines to get home. I got home, but it was extremely painful afterwards. Anyhow, thanks in advance.
Ian in SanDiego
P.S. Riding in the rain today wasn't so bad, just wish the cars did spray the damn water on me and my bike
Lately I've been experiencing pain on the outside of my left leg. I thought at first it might have been the running that I've started to do (thinking about doing a sprint tri) so I stopped that for a while. That has not changed my condition at the moment. After about 2 hours I can start to feel the pain. It really does not matter if I hammer hard or just spin, it just starts to hurt. I went to my doctor and he moved my knee every sort of direction but I experienced no pain. The only time I did was when I started to bend my knee back and then forward. I can put weight on it without issue and after a day my knee is back to normal. I've been riding steadily now for about 6 months and and put about 2000 miles. I really have not done any sort of structured training until the start of this year when I started to do some of the spinervals in hopes to be a better climber. Anyhow, I did some research and thought my changing my position might do some help but I thought I would just ask to see if anyone else had similar issues. I've also started to do some ITB specific stretching. I do know that I can't exceed 2 hours, since the first the pain happened I was into the third hour of training ride when the pain become unbearable and I still had to climb Torrey Pines to get home. I got home, but it was extremely painful afterwards. Anyhow, thanks in advance.
Ian in SanDiego
P.S. Riding in the rain today wasn't so bad, just wish the cars did spray the damn water on me and my bike