Ride a bike, share your experience and love. When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. ~Diane Ackerman

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Back to business after three weeks off the bike


About three weeks ago I rode up GMR to Hwy 39 with David. I'm not sure what happened but I ended up injuring my knee and left me off the bike until today.

Today, Mike, Annette, Matt, Rick, Meme, Kevin and I rode up GMR. Annette and Matt made it to the Maint. Shed. Meme and Kevin made it to the first saddle (Good Job Guys!). Mike, Rick and I headed to Mt. Baldy.

The ride for Mt. Baldy was nice except for a strong winds that pushed you to the left and then to the right and then backwards! It was a little scary at times.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Hello, hello!

A Bike Ride

As I sit at home on this cold and rainy day, I'm already thinking about my next ride, where will I go? Riding for me is something that melts away my stress and renews my spirit.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

My source of knee pain - Chrondromalacia Patella



Picture from www.nln.nih.gov

I noticed lately after hard road rides my right knee is sore for a couple of days. Sunday, it happened when I road up GMR to Hwy 39 with David. After the ride my right knee cap was killing me. Well, I applied some Ben Gay and off to Coates I went for some advice.

The guys at Coates suggested I look at my saddle height and cleat position. I adjusted my cleats in thus turning my shoes outward and away from the center of the bike. My natural stance is what you would call "Duck Toed" so I hope this helps. I also took another look at my saddle height and saddled center in relation to my knees and ball of feet when at the three o'clock position. I raised my seat about 6mm and centered my saddle biased forward. Saddle height is tricky because if your saddle is too low, your knees will be sore, if your saddle is too high, your "boys" get numb. I'm not sure I'm describing saddle center correctly but basically the saddle is still level just the rails are pushed 3 to 4 mm forward.

I hope all this works because I can't be injuring myself due to poor bike setup. I really think its my setup that is causing my knee pain because when I run I don't have any pain in the knees.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed and will keep tweaking my bike until I find something that works. I also have a tendency to mash my gears, the next time I ride, I'm going to try to spin versus mash.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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