I have this fairly involved training schedule set up for this spring to get me ready for some challenging century rides. It doesn’t allow for very many days off the bike, and since I have taken some days off, I try to get rides in during smaller parts of the day.
Case in point, last Thursday Allison and I went over to her parent’s house for dinner. Since I started work really early that day (6:45), I left early and joined James for a 13 mile ride near my house. After that I rode over for dinner. The route over to Allison’s parent’s house is only around 10 miles, but it crosses some fairly hilly terrain as it goes through Ellington Agricultural Center. Somehow while climbing the steep-ish hill heading through Ellington, I pulled a muscle or tendon in my right foot. Right along the shin. I can feel it every time I lift my foot.
The good news is it only hurts when I ride. No, wait. That’s the bad news. The good news is it gets better each day. I stayed off the bike most of the weekend (had 100+ miles planned) and only did 8 miles on the rollers tonight. Hopefully it will be 100% again by Saturday, when Andy and I head to Clarksville for the Susan G. Komen Ride for the Cure.
If not, I have less than three weeks to fully recover before the 3 State 3 Mountain Challenge century, and every day that passes with this injury is one less day of hill intervals, distance training, or riding at all. Talk about a setback.
Update: So it looks like the injury is an inflammation of the anterior tibialis muscle sheath that runs across the front of the shin. It is feeling a lot better today after 30 minutes of careful stretching of all majoe leg muscles last night.
I think it was caused by my cycling shoes. Everything else about the bike fit is so spot on now that I can’t neglect the possibility that I need a set of cleat wedges or orthotics for my shoes.
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I’m leaving it along for a couple of days. It should get better as long as I stay off the bike. Hard as that is to do right now with so many rides coming up.