Ride Entry – 23rd August 2009
Bike: Pimpino
DIstance:61 miles
What a shit week for riding this week has been! Set off this morning with a 100+ mile ride planned (again). I thought I’d sorted the cranks out, pulled, cleaned, greased and refitted them and up to ten miles it felt like I had. Of course, then they started creaking again. Not as badly so I carried on but then my back started giving me gyp. IN fact, after about 40 odd miles it was hurting so bad I decided to call it a day and head for home. The creaking got worse and so did my back to the extent where I had to find a shop that was selling ibuprofen just to take the edge off it.
Not sure what that’s about, need some photos of me riding to see what my position is like, feels comfy enough, could possibly be my Bak being full of water (3 litres), it was still pretty full when I got home. Maybe a combination of the pronish position plus a big weight on my back. Fine now though.
Anyway, 61 miles and you can see how bad I was feeling because despite it being fairly flat, 15mph average, even if it was mostly offroad.
Assuming I don’t get out tonight, that’s an extremely disappointing 179 miles for the week. Really though, I should get out even if it’s just to push it over 200.
August 23, 2009 12:54 pm 2 Comments
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By D0NK, August 24, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
I’ve started getting lower back pain while riding, dunno what’s causing it but getting off and doing a few touch-my-toes stretches and arched back leaning backwards stuff tends to sort it out.
By samuri, August 24, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
I’ve been leaning backwards but I might try a stretches, see if that helps, ta.