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| Aquarius |
Posted on 20-04-2012 07:08
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Resting is all you can do. See a doctor, you may get to do an echography, that'll show you if there's much blood in your harmstring, and if it needs a punction or not.
It generally takes a while to fully recover though.  |
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 20-04-2012 19:39
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It turned out to be a pulled hamstring, my most common injury, but this one has caused the most pain. I have pulled the same hamstring alot since I had the knee injury in the same leg. The doctor said it is because of that injury why this problem keeps reoccuring. I have been advised not to ride my TT on wednesday and to rest for upto 3 weeks before possibly physiotherapy to strengthen and improve flexibility. Just glad is not anything more serious, but if I do exercise I run the risk of snapping it altogether.
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Posted on 20-04-2012 19:50
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Just been to the doctors toady...
3 weeks ago i was running a cross-country event at school, and got a numb leg 1/4 of the way in ... Being a man i finished the race (in last) then went to get it checked.
After a trip to hospital to get it scanned turns out i pinched a nerve!
Ive been riding with it for those 3 weeks....
Doctor says im not to do strenuous exercise with it for a month!!
Im in the middle of training for my first triathlon... Damn it
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Posted on 21-04-2012 09:42
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Ste117 wrote:
It turned out to be a pulled hamstring, my most common injury, but this one has caused the most pain. I have pulled the same hamstring alot since I had the knee injury in the same leg. The doctor said it is because of that injury why this problem keeps reoccuring. I have been advised not to ride my TT on wednesday and to rest for upto 3 weeks before possibly physiotherapy to strengthen and improve flexibility. Just glad is not anything more serious, but if I do exercise I run the risk of snapping it altogether.
Since switching to clipless pedals and cleats I have had problems with my left hamsting and left knee. I've now had physio and after 6 months off the bike I'm building back up. However, I have ditched the clipless pedlas and gone back to toe clips. |
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Posted on 21-04-2012 09:51
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2 and a half weeks until my regional duathlon, I am 1-2 years younger than my rivals but still I am keen to go for it. 6km run 20km bike 2km run. Should be fast, bike course is largely flat and the run is quite hilly, it is usually quite windy because it's next to the beach, I am aiming for a time of 1 hour 15 minutes, I want a decent finish. Will give you the results after the race  |
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Posted on 16-06-2012 18:41
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Ive just purchased a new bike, Bianchi.
https://www.facebo...to_comment
£830 is is going to be costing me!
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 18-06-2012 17:29
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Near death experience just reminded me you don't need common sense to drive a car. On a roundabout just going to exit when someone undercuts the car waiting for me to pass. He's going at speed and in the wrong lane and blindsided by the vehicle he undercut - he brakes I brake I stop about 2 feet short of him - he stops what would have been about 10 feet through me if I hadn't.
He then has the wherewithall to have a pop at me until I knidly remind him YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC ALREADY ON THE ROUNDABOUT YOU TOTAL IDIOT  (unfortunately no time to start on the undercut and wrong lane bit of it).
Needless to say I shall be seeking out quieter roads at every opportunity from now on and have a new ridiculous manoeuvre to keep an eye out for and avoid... |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 18-06-2012 17:53
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ianrussell wrote:
Near death experience just reminded me you don't need common sense to drive a car. On a roundabout just going to exit when someone undercuts the car waiting for me to pass. He's going at speed and in the wrong lane and blindsided by the vehicle he undercut - he brakes I brake I stop about 2 feet short of him - he stops what would have been about 10 feet through me if I hadn't.
He then has the wherewithall to have a pop at me until I knidly remind him YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC ALREADY ON THE ROUNDABOUT YOU TOTAL IDIOT (unfortunately no time to start on the undercut and wrong lane bit of it).
Needless to say I shall be seeking out quieter roads at every opportunity from now on and have a new ridiculous manoeuvre to keep an eye out for and avoid...
Similar thing happened to me a while back, just goes to show that there are a lot of total dicks on the roads these days  |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 18-06-2012 19:34
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Happens here as well, on smaller roundabouts every once in a while (not that close though), speed is often limited to 30 km/h and if I'm doing intervals on the flat, well, I'm really above that speed, so cars often misjudge my speed and must think "it's just a cyclist, he's at 50 m now, he'll be there in 15 s, that's more than what I need to go through that roundabout" ). It doesn't take me 15s, dimwits, it takes me 5 or 10 s max.
Always keep your fingers near the braking levers, that's what racing in a peloton teaches you, and you keep the habit even when you ride alone.
Talking of "your racing", for the first time in years, I might hang a back number on a cycling shirt in one month.  
With two working mates we might take part in a team triathlon (together with actual triathletes), I'll do the cycling part, 19 km, 182 m of ascent. Our runner is out of condition and slightly injured though.
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 18-06-2012 21:42
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Aquarius wrote:
Always keep your fingers near the braking levers, that's what racing in a peloton teaches you, and you keep the habit even when you ride alone.
Talking of "your racing", for the first time in years, I might hang a back number on a cycling shirt in one month.
With two working mates we might take part in a team triathlon (together with actual triathletes), I'll do the cycling part, 19 km, 182 m of ascent. Our runner is out of condition and slightly injured though.
Yes, good advice I was thankfully hovering over the brakes as I always do whenever there is any traffic etc around.
Team triathlon sounds fun, I especially like the idea of it as I can't swim for toffee! |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 18-06-2012 21:47
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I'm a poor swimmer myself, random people have spoken to me in several occasions to tell me there's something wrong with how I move my legs and how my feet seem to be "stuck". I tried with a board, but I felt deeply embarrassed. It seems only my arms help. I don't think I had such problems a dozen of years ago, that's weird.
I could do the running (I'm mostly a runner nowadays), but finding a proper cyclist is difficult, and I still ride enough to be a threat to most amateur triathletes, especially in a ITT (and if they've been swimming before). You can't change what you really are.  |
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Posted on 18-06-2012 21:50
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My cop out for being such a poor swimmer is I must have high bone density...probably...maybe... |
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 18-06-2012 21:52
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Or your skin is thick, and you have a thing that makes you metabolise lead better than anyone.  |
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Posted on 18-06-2012 21:55
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Just to brag a lil' bit...
Rode the Kalas Cup 2 Day at the weekend with a wonderful 4 man Rapha Condor squad (who ended up winning the GC surprise surprise).
I managed to get myself a puncture whilst riding some Enve rims on Chris King hubs (oh the bliss of demo wheels from a bike shop), and then got a spare wheel off the Rapha car. Being given neutral service by a professional mechanic and from a car driven by John Herety. Yeah, I didn't mind the puncture too much...!
As to my actual performance... well, let's not go there eh?
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| baggieboys32 |
Posted on 18-06-2012 21:55
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I hear you on the nearly dying front xD
Having a car cut you up and emergency stop in front of you due to an oncoming car that he didn't see around a bend...
I went flying, bike broke, me broke
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 18-06-2012 22:01
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baggieboys32 wrote:
I hear you on the nearly dying front xD
Having a car cut you up and emergency stop in front of you due to an oncoming car that he didn't see around a bend...
I went flying, bike broke, me broke
Ouch, amazes me how many people think it's fine to overtake on a blind corner or over the crest of a hill so long as they do it really quickly...and don't even get me started on idiots who think it's fine to park just round a blind corner (mostly delivery vehicles who don't want to walk an extra 10 feet).
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 19-06-2012 17:41
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ianrussell wrote:
baggieboys32 wrote:
I hear you on the nearly dying front xD
Having a car cut you up and emergency stop in front of you due to an oncoming car that he didn't see around a bend...
I went flying, bike broke, me broke
Ouch, amazes me how many people think it's fine to overtake on a blind corner or over the crest of a hill so long as they do it really quickly...and don't even get me started on idiots who think it's fine to park just round a blind corner (mostly delivery vehicles who don't want to walk an extra 10 feet).
A couple of years ago a friend of mine spent two weeks in intensive care because a car just stopped dead in the road and he hit it at speed and went a further 25feet further on. The elderly male driver said he stopped so his wife could adjust her seatbelt. Amazes me how these people are still on our roads |
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| ianrussell |
Posted on 19-06-2012 22:16
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sutty68 wrote:
ianrussell wrote:
baggieboys32 wrote:
I hear you on the nearly dying front xD
Having a car cut you up and emergency stop in front of you due to an oncoming car that he didn't see around a bend...
I went flying, bike broke, me broke
Ouch, amazes me how many people think it's fine to overtake on a blind corner or over the crest of a hill so long as they do it really quickly...and don't even get me started on idiots who think it's fine to park just round a blind corner (mostly delivery vehicles who don't want to walk an extra 10 feet).
A couple of years ago a friend of mine spent two weeks in intensive care because a car just stopped dead in the road and he hit it at speed and went a further 25feet further on. The elderly male driver said he stopped so his wife could adjust her seatbelt. Amazes me how these people are still on our roads
Scary. It's a good point to make though, even when things seem safe and straight forward you have to stay as alert as possible to totally random nonsense like that
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Posted on 19-06-2012 22:31
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On a more positive, though slightly pathetic note - I successfully cleaned and re-lubed my chain today for the 1st time! 
So I can now do the most basic bit of bike maintenance that any primate is capable of which is a big step up for me, given I have the manual dexterity of a walrus with one flipper.
Having only really got into riding myself just a year and a half ago I put off chain maintenance at first then had a dodgy service done and took some bad advice (using totally inappropriate lubricant) paying for it with a snapped chain and a replacement cassette. That belatedly prompted me to do a bit of reading and, I can honestly say for someone who hates all things DIY, I actually enjoyed doing it properly myself |
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Posted on 19-06-2012 22:40
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The good thing about not having a good bike shop anywhere close is that i can do almost everything on my one. Never tried to open my hyraulic brake system as i have heard some funny stories about teammates who tried it (nothing happened to them).
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