Warning, warning, warning: I will be bitching about my knees for a few paragraphs. People ask me what part of my knees hurt. Well. Let’s see, where should I start? When I’m biking, right below my left knee on the back of my calf hurts (no my saddle isn’t too low). Sometimes the fro[...]
Archive for November, 2009
November 26th, 2009 - 7:31 am § in Deep Thoughts, MTB
Happy Thanksgiving
Things I am thankful for: my mountain bike, sunshine and single track. I took The Merlin out yesterday for the first time since cross season started, and it was glorious. Down right spiritual. I was beaming, smiling like a maniac, and I had this overwhelming feeling that life wasn’t too bad af[...]
Winter cycling hibernation
I’ve been essentially off the bike since Hillsboro; I’ve only done a handful of long endurance rides, but otherwise I’ve only been doing yoga, strength training, and intervals on the elliptical and the gazelle-type machine at the gym (the only thing that doesn’t make my knees[...]
November 21st, 2009 - 12:58 am § in Racing
2010 Extremely Tentative A-ish races
Cherry Blossom Stage Race 22-Apr-10 Cascade Chainbreaker 9-May-10 Silverton RR 16-May-10 Picketts Charge 27-Jun-10 High Cascades 100 7-Aug-10 [...]
Finally, foam rolling actually did something
I admit I was skeptical that foam rolling twice a day and icing afterward would actually do anything for my knees. After years of problems, I’m pretty pessimistic when it comes to overuse injuries. Well, I’ve been keeping my workouts very light, absolutely no running, no hill climbing, n[...]
November 12th, 2009 - 1:12 pm § in Cyclocross, Race Reports
Anyone have some spare knees?
Looks like I missed posting about Astoria weekend as well as the PIR cross crusade race. I wonder why I didn’t feel particularly motivated to post…oh yeah. All three races sucked. Bad. I felt like I had been through the meat grinder during the Saturday Astoria race. Every hill was a chal[...]
