So the last 2 weeks have been really low key. (aka: done not much of anything training wise). After a 12 day break, I went for a short 21 mile ride with a friend. It was low key, not at all fast, not much climbing, and not very long. A great way to test out the knee. Unfortunately, even though I rode it with the brace on, my knee started hurting about 1/2 way through.
Friday I went to see my new Physiotherapist for the first time. She was GREAT! She asked me a ton of questions, did an assessment, and asked me all about my goals. Or in this case: goal-singular. For me, this is all about Ride2Survive, and getting through it. I really don't care much about anything else at this point.
She did some pointed laser therapy on the spot that is causing me problems, and along with some other things-put an Iomed bandage on it (http://www.amazon.com/Iomed-Iontophoresis-Electrodes-Companion-80/dp/B000U64W2G) with steroids under the bandage. She reassured me that I have tendonitis, not tendonosis. One is acute. One is chronic. It takes a lot longer than a few months to develop the chronic tendonosis. She told me that I can continue to train, and let the pain be my guide. If it's excruciating, it's giving me a message to stop. If I can tolerate it, I'm fine to continue........as long as I promise that after the ride I am to take a good long break from cycling and give it time to fully heal. DEAL!
So this morning's plan was to head out with a group that we met last year, but found really quite fast. Den contacted them, and then said they'd love to have us. They were only going out for a couple of hours this morning, and originally both of us were going to go. Parker (son) however, had different plans for us. He was up through the night in our room with a high fever. I have no idea where it came from-he went to bed healthy! So there was no way I was going to leave him alone (Madison had plans this morning). Den said that since he's gotten in several good training rides over the last 2 weeks, and I hadn't really done any, that he would volunteer to stay home with Parker. I was happy because I was really curious what would happen with my knee.
The group of guys I met up with were great. They said they often break out into two different groups/different speeds. We started out and were going about 20 miles per hour for the first 1/2 hour. Sounds fairly fast until you realize that tucked into a group it really isn't that fast at all. I *may* have goaded them on by asking them if they were taking it easy for "the girl". About 15-20 minutes later, the ride pace suddenly picked up! LOL. So anyway, the good news is that we did about 32 miles, we at times rode pretty fast, and my knee was pretty darn good the whole time. A few deep pangs at one point that had me concerned, but they went away (??). I'm thrilled with whatever that physio girl did to me! Can't wait to see how it continues to improve, as I'm scheduled to go see her twice a week for the next two weeks.
Hoping this trend of feeling pretty good continues! I just have to take it easy and not push it too hard, either in distance or in climbing.
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