takenreasy

For the most part I ride my fixed gear bike on the flat lands and use a geared bike when heading out on long rides with hills. Recently, probably thinking I’ve been doing better than I actually am at age 63+ riding 72 gear inches, I’ve been going farther even up/down some decent hills. I normally don’t try to set any speed records when going for a longer ride. A little over a week ago I was feeling my oats and did 40 miles which in and of itself isn’t probably that big of a deal. More and more I’ve been doing 25-30… but the head wind coming back the second 20 miles of this ride turned out to be a problem. Normally I just lope along against such winds but this time I really pushed it. I felt fine when I got home but later that night – nope. Must’ve done some pretty good repetitive motion aggravation (maybe hip flexor?) fighting the wind at a much higher cadence than usual. I could barely get up from seated positions, walk, etc. because of my hip. A little more than a week later and all seems better now but lesson learned - don’t make drastic changes all at once.