TransBaviaans.....injury....HELP!!!

[Cycle Fan]

OK, so entered this for the first time and all was going well until about a month ago....

 

Not going to bore you with the sad details of the injury woes but am now currently struggling with a quad/hip flexor strain that doesn't allow me ride more than 60-90min without it seizing up. Standing seems to be ok - looks like it doesn't like the angle of the hip while sitting.

 

I've been doing intervals on the spin bike (6min standing climb/1min rest) for about 45min followed by about 20-30min of running. I've been training 5-6 days a week.

 

My worry is the long rides.... I also have no way of judging how the fitness is coming along and the time is getting really short now.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated...

[Steven Knoetze (sk27)]

Don't have any advice just know that when I bought my light from you a few months ago you were super excited for the TB and now this injury.

Hope you get good advice and have a speedy recovery.

[fabes]

Core work... Do lots of it. It won't help your fitness but it will help your injury

[mrbaker]

You said standing seems to be ok...

 

How far can you ride without sitting down

Edited June 18, 2013 by mrbaker

[Cycle Fan]

@sk27 - was super excited - now, not so much! We doing the ride for Charity and I'm the one doing all the organising so it's a bitter pill to swallow if I can't ride.

@fabes - been seeing a bio once a week for the past 5 weeks and he's given me some core work. Doing it relgiously by still no major breakthrough

@mrbaker - was also wondering that - but 230km / 16hours seems a bit far

[V12man]

Google cyclist iliac syndrome - there used to be a thread here about it, but I suspect it's gone post crash.

 

Check if the symptoms match and let us know.

[Cycle Fan]

Google cyclist iliac syndrome - there used to be a thread here about it, but I suspect it's gone post crash.

 

Check if the symptoms match and let us know.

 

Thanks - did some reading and don't think this is me...

 

I had some serious complications with a lower back injury that had me off the bike for most of last year. The Bio seems to think that the back tightness is due to the tightness in the quad and hip flexor and that the treatment is now causing the 'inner line' of muscles to work harder than they have done in the past. I have a serious overcompensation on the 'outside line' so this makes sense to me.

[V12man]

Thanks - did some reading and don't think this is me...

 

 

Good to hear - but keep it in mind if your symptoms don't resolve - it has a tendency to get worse over time.

[Cycle Fan]

Thanks will keep that in mind.