Originally Posted by ridethecliche

Lets see:

Sophomore year of college (about 2.5 years ago) I started riding my bike seriously. Loved it. I got into training for races and racing that spring. Had a bad crash, like 5 broken bones in my face, reconstruction surgery, the works. That was in april sophy year. Had to go home from college, finish school work from home, then come back in the fall.

I watched every day of the tour from home. Wanted to destroy everything after my wreck. Cycling was how I coped.

The fall was me being weak as hell and building up. My first race back in the spring, I got pulled. 2 weeks later something clicked. During crit season, I raced 2-5 times a week and for a 2 weekend period, I didn't finish out of the money or points when I was racing for me.

1 tuesday night training crit. 2 races saturday, 2 races sunday. It's really not that complicated. Last fall, I had a retul fit which lowered my saddle, which made the knee issue worse because of my imbalance. I also started racing cross, and that didn't help either. Now, I'm rehabbing from that injury and a back injury. I'll be racing again in the spring, possibly 2-5 times a week. I hope that's okay with you, if it's not, I'll do it anyway.

I'm also curious what wattages you can hit with those tree trunk legs of yours.

So please, if you have a bone to pick with someone, check yourself.

Kthxbai.



Yup!

If you have one of those quad curl machines, then do those and add reps at the end when you work from 30* extension to full extension with your foot pointing outwards as this will target the inner quad. In addition, squats and lunges with a narrower (shoulder width) stance will allow you to recruit the VMO more, especially if you push outwards.

I've been lifting the last few months and the issue has been getting better. I did my first long ride in almost half a year today with very little discomfort. From now on, 2 gym days will be in my weekly training regiment.