5th
More on the knee
Went out for a laid back 60k loop with the club yesterday. I was treating it like a recovery ride and had no intentions of trying to “kill it” - or anyone else that had come along.
About 20k into the ride, my knee started acting up again. I dropped off the back almost immediately, and limped into the halfway point in Streetsville about 5 minutes behind everyone else.
The pain was bad, not as bad as the weekend prior, but bad enough that I didn’t want to be on the bike anymore.
One of my fellow riders is a doctor and he offered to take a look at it when we finished the ride. Coincidentally, he had forgotten his asthma medication and was suffering too, so we both had some pretty good motivation to cut the ride short.
We both made our way back at half speed to his offfice. After a pretty thorough poking and prodding, his diagnosis was that I had distressed the “vastus medialis” muscle (a part of my quadricep) where it attaches to the bone. It is more of an inflammatory condition than anything else, and with some active rest and Advil, I should be okay in a couple of weeks.
This means no cycling for two weeks, save a 15 minute spin twice a day to keep the joint moving.
I’m going to take the opportunity to get back to the gym and focus on eating better in advance of the start of my training. Updates to the blog might suffer, I’m not sure I’ll have anything exciting to talk about, but will blog if something comes to mind.
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