knee | Ideologically opposed to stopping

… four weeks (almost)

January 13, 2025 | cyclist | Comment | knee

Back on the turbo – I managed a brief ride last week, but it hurt like **** and I had to ride unclipped to be able to get a full revolution on the pedals at all. I did one kilometre and decided that was enough of a milestone.

This week (six days later) and I’ve finished a half hour workout on Zwift. FTP bias was dialled down to 75% because I didn’t want to stress the knee too much by actually doing an FTP test, and the goal was the time rather than any particular power output etc. Pedalled focussing on the left leg (and yes, that’s going to give me DOMS tomorrow given how it’s feeling now after some ice!). The discomfort is tightness, not the sharp knee pain that I had pre-op.

Another seven days on

December 29, 2024 | cyclist | Comment | knee

I stopped taking the tramadol on Monday morning as an experiment – nothing was particularly painful so I thought it worth a try. Haven’t needed it since; might not have really needed it at the weekend either.

Now a work in progress

December 22, 2024 | cyclist | Comment | knee

The knee is fixed. Hopefully. My patellofemoral structure now involves a certain amount of metal and plastic, following surgery for partial knee replacement on Tuesday. The work starts here, though, with rehab/recovery. I’m contemplating a 50k audax in late May …

Once more into the fray

March 16, 2024 | cyclist | Comment | Just riding, knee, Uncategorized

An actual ride on actual roads (more or less, given the state of Herts County Council finances). I have been irritating myself with a continued resistance to getting out on the bike, with some anxiety about whether my knee/leg would cope, and how I’d get home if it didn’t. The turbo has the key advantage that I can just get off …

Numbers

October 12, 2023 | cyclist | Comment | knee

So far, so good. Or something. Second cortisone/lubricant knee injection of the year, as it was all getting rather clunky again. I’ve been walking rather than cycling this week, partly a question of opportunity and partly because I still have a crocked gravel bike and the road bike is distinctly not suitable for this weather/roads (and the mountain bike is heavy and cumbersome). The crocked gravel bike has a fix date – the kit has arrived, but the workshop is busy so it’s had to wait for an open slot. I would replace it myself, but I’m not going to try and figure out hydraulic brakes myself without supervision the first time. One day I will find a full hydraulic disc brake course, but today is not that day (lots that deal with replacing pads etc. I can do that. It’s the actual hydraulics I want some reassurance on).

21kg off as well, mostly due to increased protein intake (as far as I can tell; it’s the only really changed variable. I’m eating less, but that seems to be because of the increased protein). It’s slowed a bit recently, probably because I keep second-guessing myself and playing the “if that works, this must be even better” game. It usually isn’t better or, at least, isn’t as sustainable. Back to the whey protein isolate, methinks.