Knee pain...
Notifitsraining
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Over the last week I have begun to feel discomfort in the inner rear side of my right knee. I feel it most lifting my foot on the forward step walking, particularly after having been seated for a while. It is not particularly painful, but I can feel it is not right.
I have felt something like it before, hill walking in heavy boots, on consecutive long days on the hill – which leads me to think it may just be a pull (I have an ongoing battle with tight hamstrings). Having said that I have recently increased my cycling training slightly and upped the pace and am worried it may be something more sinister. Had I been doing more running I might have thought that was to blame as despite being a slight overpronator, I run in neutral shoes but I have been running only once a week of late (though all on road).
Has anyone any ideas what may be causing this? I want to be increasing my training right now and if there is an obvious answer I’d like to remedy it now before it worsens.
Also, though my bike seat position conforms closely to formulae I’ve seen in T220 and Cycling+, neither mentioned much about determining the ideal fore/aft, lateral, and rotational positions for cleats. I have recently moved my seat forward 5mm to help me accommodate a drop in bar height but have not checked to see if the cleat position may need altering. I am going to re-visit my entire set up using guidelines of Lennard Zinn as a starting point, however if anyone knows of a blinding correlation between pain in the area I describe and cleat set up I’d be very interested to know so I can factor it in. Alternatively does anyone know a good bike fitter near Ipswich?!
I have felt something like it before, hill walking in heavy boots, on consecutive long days on the hill – which leads me to think it may just be a pull (I have an ongoing battle with tight hamstrings). Having said that I have recently increased my cycling training slightly and upped the pace and am worried it may be something more sinister. Had I been doing more running I might have thought that was to blame as despite being a slight overpronator, I run in neutral shoes but I have been running only once a week of late (though all on road).
Has anyone any ideas what may be causing this? I want to be increasing my training right now and if there is an obvious answer I’d like to remedy it now before it worsens.
Also, though my bike seat position conforms closely to formulae I’ve seen in T220 and Cycling+, neither mentioned much about determining the ideal fore/aft, lateral, and rotational positions for cleats. I have recently moved my seat forward 5mm to help me accommodate a drop in bar height but have not checked to see if the cleat position may need altering. I am going to re-visit my entire set up using guidelines of Lennard Zinn as a starting point, however if anyone knows of a blinding correlation between pain in the area I describe and cleat set up I’d be very interested to know so I can factor it in. Alternatively does anyone know a good bike fitter near Ipswich?!
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Apparently if you get out of the pool or bath, walk along naturally and look at your wet footprints. This will give some idea to your natural foot position.
Have you thought about having your position professionally assessed? Formulas don't work for cycle-positioning and have been largely discredited. Everyone pedals differently and has different imbalances and asymetries. Formulas don't take account of individual physiology. They aim at the bullseye where we aim for the centre of the bulls-eye. The problem and therefore solution could be: stance-witdth, cleat position, pronation, supination, set-back, posture, pedalling technique...etc or a combination of some or all of them. Or something else. It is too important to guess I would suggest.
Phil Cavell
CycleFit