Switch to Ibuprofen if you can. It's an anti-inflammatory as well as a pain reliever. Just the thing for overworked muscles.

(meant to say in my previous reply, but forgot...)

Yeah - For some reason I'm already developing an appreciation for the "classic level top tube steel frame road bike", but given I've never touched one it's more than a little premature. Plus, I got my current bike only last spring, so I have a lot of time to spend, uh... invest, on it (and myself!) before I get hot to trot about something new I think I "need". I learned that lesson a long time ago as an amateur astronomer (which can also be an expensive hobby) - There are always lots of new optical / cycling things to buy.

Now if I can only remember and apply those lessons 'learned'...