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Aloha Kids...it's that time again.  Who is racing like the wind this weekend?  Goals?  We want details!

We've talked about balancing priorities this week, but lets' dive a little deeper.  For those of us who feel we have a less developed part of our SBR game, what is it? and are you doing anything about it?  or just enjoying the whole experience for what it is--FUN!

Hillary, much like myself, enjoys training with her friends. GMTA, and all...

Wouldn't that be Asspirational?

Unfortunate distraction question:

I have developed a really severe pain in my left foot over the past couple days.  It started hurting on Monday and I took a Naproxen which seemed to work, as I felt fine on Tuesday.  Tuesday night I ran and had no pain in it, but it started hurting again yesterday.  I took another Naproxen last night and when I woke up this morning my foot was hurting much worse than before.  It feels similar to the description of gout, except that my big toe is fine and no joints seem to be affected.  The pain is throughout the upper part of my foot, excluding my toes.  I have no swelling and no redness or discoloration.  I cannot put weight on it, and movement and walking are both excruciating.  WedMD diagnosed the symtoms as most likely a broken bone in my foot - and I suppose there could be a stress fracture, but there has been no acute trauma or sudden injury.

I am hoping to get in to see a podiatrist tomorrow, but does anyone have any thoughts or ideas as to what it might actually be?  Has anyone had anything like this before?  And most importantly to me right now, any ideas on how to make it bearable?  Ice made no difference and elevation seemed to make it worse. 

Also, FWIW, this is not the same foot I was dealing with heel pain in.

Any advice or help would be appreciated.  Until then, I will continue to self-medicate by staring at the picture above.

edited to correct that I cannot put weight on it.

So I've been dealing with some back issues since the summer.  I've done exercises from my chiropractor, massage therapist and coach.  During cross season it seemed to get better until Thanksgiving when I went on 2 long hilly tough road rides and it came back.  It was only really happening when I would get into a good climb trying to stay with a fast group.  About 30 minutes into good hard hilly rides it would really start hurting.

So I was resigned to the fact that I would only be able to do flat crit's this year (better at those anyways), or not race at all due to the pain.

Over the last couple weeks I had 2 people tell me it looked like my seat was a bit low.  I didn't think so since I had been through 3-4 fitting sessions with my coach trying to figure out if anything would help my back problem.

I tried it out late last week and didn't seem to make much of a difference.  Then I got on a hilly section after about :30 minutes every down pedal stroke with my right leg I could feel a tight pain in my lower back.  Having my seat lower I didn't feel it so severly, it just started getting sore.  With my seat raised I had to stretch out a bit more to pedal with my normal pedal stroke.

When I started reading in the forums way back when someone had said something about the pedal stroke should feel like you are trying to scrape mud off the bottom of your shoes, so I always took that to mean toes more up and heels more down.  Which is supposed to activate more of your muscles to help pedal. 

I switched to pedaling flat footed and no pain whatsoever.  The muscles in my legs are so stupidly tight that by dropping my heels it was pulling on my back.  Now I'm working on loosening up those muscles more but pedalling flat footed until then.

This was a huge relief, I was starting to get worried that I might have to give up doing any sort of hilly rides, which is what most of the team training rides are.

LOL, sorry for the long post but I am so relieved right now that I finally figured it out!

Aloha Kids...it's that time again.  Who is racing like the wind this weekend?  Goals?  We want details!

We've talked about balancing priorities this week, but lets' dive a little deeper.  For those of us who feel we have a less developed part of our SBR game, what is it? and are you doing anything about it?  or just enjoying the whole experience for what it is--FUN!

"We" as in the whole family? 

So I've been dealing with some back issues since the summer.  I've done exercises from my chiropractor, massage therapist and coach.  During cross season it seemed to get better until Thanksgiving when I went on 2 long hilly tough road rides and it came back.  It was only really happening when I would get into a good climb trying to stay with a fast group.  About 30 minutes into good hard hilly rides it would really start hurting.

So I was resigned to the fact that I would only be able to do flat crit's this year (better at those anyways), or not race at all due to the pain.

Over the last couple weeks I had 2 people tell me it looked like my seat was a bit low.  I didn't think so since I had been through 3-4 fitting sessions with my coach trying to figure out if anything would help my back problem.

I tried it out late last week and didn't seem to make much of a difference.  Then I got on a hilly section after about :30 minutes every down pedal stroke with my right leg I could feel a tight pain in my lower back.  Having my seat lower I didn't feel it so severly, it just started getting sore.  With my seat raised I had to stretch out a bit more to pedal with my normal pedal stroke.

When I started reading in the forums way back when someone had said something about the pedal stroke should feel like you are trying to scrape mud off the bottom of your shoes, so I always took that to mean toes more up and heels more down.  Which is supposed to activate more of your muscles to help pedal. 

I switched to pedaling flat footed and no pain whatsoever.  The muscles in my legs are so stupidly tight that by dropping my heels it was pulling on my back.  Now I'm working on loosening up those muscles more but pedalling flat footed until then.

This was a huge relief, I was starting to get worried that I might have to give up doing any sort of hilly rides, which is what most of the team training rides are.

LOL, sorry for the long post but I am so relieved right now that I finally figured it out!

So I've been dealing with some back issues since the summer.  I've done exercises from my chiropractor, massage therapist and coach.  During cross season it seemed to get better until Thanksgiving when I went on 2 long hilly tough road rides and it came back.  It was only really happening when I would get into a good climb trying to stay with a fast group.  About 30 minutes into good hard hilly rides it would really start hurting.

So I was resigned to the fact that I would only be able to do flat crit's this year (better at those anyways), or not race at all due to the pain.

Over the last couple weeks I had 2 people tell me it looked like my seat was a bit low.  I didn't think so since I had been through 3-4 fitting sessions with my coach trying to figure out if anything would help my back problem.

I tried it out late last week and didn't seem to make much of a difference.  Then I got on a hilly section after about :30 minutes every down pedal stroke with my right leg I could feel a tight pain in my lower back.  Having my seat lower I didn't feel it so severly, it just started getting sore.  With my seat raised I had to stretch out a bit more to pedal with my normal pedal stroke.

When I started reading in the forums way back when someone had said something about the pedal stroke should feel like you are trying to scrape mud off the bottom of your shoes, so I always took that to mean toes more up and heels more down.  Which is supposed to activate more of your muscles to help pedal. 

I switched to pedaling flat footed and no pain whatsoever.  The muscles in my legs are so stupidly tight that by dropping my heels it was pulling on my back.  Now I'm working on loosening up those muscles more but pedalling flat footed until then.

This was a huge relief, I was starting to get worried that I might have to give up doing any sort of hilly rides, which is what most of the team training rides are.

LOL, sorry for the long post but I am so relieved right now that I finally figured it out!

Good news, I suppose.  After a series of x-rays and an ultrasound on my foot, the doctor says I have a gout flare-up in "an uncommon part of the foot."  Apparently it runs in my family, so it's not a complete surprise.  Weird that it's in the middle part of my foot, though.  But on the bright side, it's not a stress fracture and it should be cleared up in a few days.  I figured turning 40 was gonna suck, but I didn't know I was going to fall apart so quickly.

So I've been dealing with some back issues since the summer.  I've done exercises from my chiropractor, massage therapist and coach.  During cross season it seemed to get better until Thanksgiving when I went on 2 long hilly tough road rides and it came back.  It was only really happening when I would get into a good climb trying to stay with a fast group.  About 30 minutes into good hard hilly rides it would really start hurting.

So I was resigned to the fact that I would only be able to do flat crit's this year (better at those anyways), or not race at all due to the pain.

Over the last couple weeks I had 2 people tell me it looked like my seat was a bit low.  I didn't think so since I had been through 3-4 fitting sessions with my coach trying to figure out if anything would help my back problem.

I tried it out late last week and didn't seem to make much of a difference.  Then I got on a hilly section after about :30 minutes every down pedal stroke with my right leg I could feel a tight pain in my lower back.  Having my seat lower I didn't feel it so severly, it just started getting sore.  With my seat raised I had to stretch out a bit more to pedal with my normal pedal stroke.

When I started reading in the forums way back when someone had said something about the pedal stroke should feel like you are trying to scrape mud off the bottom of your shoes, so I always took that to mean toes more up and heels more down.  Which is supposed to activate more of your muscles to help pedal. 

I switched to pedaling flat footed and no pain whatsoever.  The muscles in my legs are so stupidly tight that by dropping my heels it was pulling on my back.  Now I'm working on loosening up those muscles more but pedalling flat footed until then.

This was a huge relief, I was starting to get worried that I might have to give up doing any sort of hilly rides, which is what most of the team training rides are.

LOL, sorry for the long post but I am so relieved right now that I finally figured it out!

Tiana: two falls in a week in the house sounds scary.  Slow down.

Good news, I suppose.  After a series of x-rays and an ultrasound on my foot, the doctor says I have a gout flare-up in "an uncommon part of the foot."  Apparently it runs in my family, so it's not a complete surprise.  Weird that it's in the middle part of my foot, though.  But on the bright side, it's not a stress fracture and it should be cleared up in a few days.  I figured turning 40 was gonna suck, but I didn't know I was going to fall apart so quickly.

Good news, I suppose.  After a series of x-rays and an ultrasound on my foot, the doctor says I have a gout flare-up in "an uncommon part of the foot."  Apparently it runs in my family, so it's not a complete surprise.  Weird that it's in the middle part of my foot, though.  But on the bright side, it's not a stress fracture and it should be cleared up in a few days.  I figured turning 40 was gonna suck, but I didn't know I was going to fall apart so quickly.

Good news, I suppose.  After a series of x-rays and an ultrasound on my foot, the doctor says I have a gout flare-up in "an uncommon part of the foot."  Apparently it runs in my family, so it's not a complete surprise.  Weird that it's in the middle part of my foot, though.  But on the bright side, it's not a stress fracture and it should be cleared up in a few days.  I figured turning 40 was gonna suck, but I didn't know I was going to fall apart so quickly.

Tuesday was a great workout.