With my slowly increasing training volume, and increasing intensity (e.g. speed), the accumulation of all the effort output is taking a bit of a toll on me. Well, it's natural for the body to feel aches and pains along the way... These ailments can be little nags in the least, or if aggravated, can be full blown sideliners. Let's hope they keep to be the former, and not the latter...
Among the many little nags thus far is a pain I felt in my right knee when riding home from work today. I can't say I was pedaling particularly hard, but was maybe spinning at a fairly high cadence. Every pedal revolution felt as if there was a separation of the kneecap and the rest of the knee joint making it impossible to deliver any force to the downward push of the pedal. Not a good feeling. I eased up off the pedals right away, and quickly adapted a modified way to keep turning the pedals over to make it another 10 miles back home. I didn't test my knee out too much for the rest of the way, but it seemed to be ok towards the end of the ride. I followed the ride with a 7 mile run, the knee was fine and strong, not nearly as tentative as during the ride.
I'll try to make an adjustment on my seat height to see if that makes a difference. In the meantime, I've also started doing leg raises. 300 on each leg tonight. Doing them should hopefully help out by strengthening the muscles in the knee area.
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