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Can't walk or stand up? Ride bike instead.
Riding home yesterday, I cut across the old railroad right-of-way, which went fine (even though it was very wet and muddy), but when I came to the final obstacle - a deep ditch crossing - it was full of water. Not wanting to lose momentum, I rode on into it, but the water was loaded with wet leaves, and I stalled. Fortunately I got a foot unclipped and down (into the water, of course - which was still better than going all the way down in the water). Then when I lifted my foot up and forward to pull myself and bike out of the ditch, there was a strong stabbing pain in the back of my leg just below the knee. I gingerly climbed out of the ditch, and got off the bike to clear leaves from the brakes and drivetrain. Man it hurt! I still had like 24 miles to go into a headwind, and started considering if I might need to call somebody to come and get me. I clipped back in and started riding; that didn't feel so bad. Maybe I could "ride it off". Riding on the rest of the way home, it was slow going into the headwind wearing a rain jacket, but the leg didn't feel too bad. In fact, it didn't hurt much at all to pedal the bike. When I got home and off the bike, though, I found that it still hurt really bad trying to stand up or walk. Today it feels a little better, which is encouraging, but I still have to walk very carefully, and it feels like it could be a couple of weeks before I'm recovered if everything goes well. I figured right after it happened that it must have been hurt because those particular muscle structures weren't used for bicycling and therefor weren't prepared to handle the sudden extension (probably made worse by sudden twisting for the panic unclip). Weird, though, how I could still ride bike pretty much fine with an acutely debilitating leg injury. |
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Can't walk or stand up? Ride bike instead.
On 2010-01-01, Dan O wrote:
[...] I figured right after it happened that it must have been hurt because those particular muscle structures weren't used for bicycling and therefor weren't prepared to handle the sudden extension (probably made worse by sudden twisting for the panic unclip). Weird, though, how I could still ride bike pretty much fine with an acutely debilitating leg injury. Hope your leg's all right. Walking is harder than one thinks. I could ride the bike long before I could walk without a stick when I broke my leg a while back. Every little thing has to be working pretty much perfectly to be able to walk smoothly without any kind of a limp. |
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Can't walk or stand up? Ride bike instead.
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, Dan O wrote: Riding home yesterday, I cut across the old railroad right-of-way, which went fine (even though it was very wet and muddy), but when I came to the final obstacle - a deep ditch crossing - it was full of water. Not wanting to lose momentum, I rode on into it, but the water was loaded with wet leaves, and I stalled. Fortunately I got a foot unclipped and down (into the water, of course - which was still better than going all the way down in the water). Then when I lifted my foot up and forward to pull myself and bike out of the ditch, there was a strong stabbing pain in the back of my leg just below the knee. I gingerly climbed out of the ditch, and got off the bike to clear leaves from the brakes and drivetrain. Man it hurt! I still had like 24 miles to go into a headwind, and started considering if I might need to call somebody to come and get me. I clipped back in and started riding; that didn't feel so bad. Maybe I could "ride it off". Riding on the rest of the way home, it was slow going into the headwind wearing a rain jacket, but the leg didn't feel too bad. In fact, it didn't hurt much at all to pedal the bike. When I got home and off the bike, though, I found that it still hurt really bad trying to stand up or walk. Today it feels a little better, which is encouraging, but I still have to walk very carefully, and it feels like it could be a couple of weeks before I'm recovered if everything goes well. I figured right after it happened that it must have been hurt because those particular muscle structures weren't used for bicycling and therefor weren't prepared to handle the sudden extension (probably made worse by sudden twisting for the panic unclip). Weird, though, how I could still ride bike pretty much fine with an acutely debilitating leg injury. I hope it's just a strain and not a torn ACL or something like that. -- "I wear the cheese, it does not wear me." |
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Can't walk or stand up? Ride bike instead.
On 1 Jan, 22:49, Dan O wrote:
Riding home yesterday, I cut across the old railroad right-of-way, which went fine (even though it was very wet and muddy), but when I came to the final obstacle - a deep ditch crossing - it was full of water. Not wanting to lose momentum, I rode on into it, but the water was loaded with wet leaves, and I stalled. *Fortunately I got a foot unclipped and down (into the water, of course - which was still better than going all the way down in the water). Then when I lifted my foot up and forward to pull myself and bike out of the ditch, there was a strong stabbing pain in the back of my leg just below the knee. I gingerly climbed out of the ditch, and got off the bike to clear leaves from the brakes and drivetrain. *Man it hurt! *I still had like 24 miles to go into a headwind, and started considering if I might need to call somebody to come and get me. *I clipped back in and started riding; that didn't feel so bad. *Maybe I could "ride it off". Riding on the rest of the way home, it was slow going into the headwind wearing a rain jacket, but the leg didn't feel too bad. *In fact, it didn't hurt much at all to pedal the bike. When I got home and off the bike, though, I found that it still hurt really bad trying to stand up or walk. Today it feels a little better, which is encouraging, but I still have to walk very carefully, and it feels like it could be a couple of weeks before I'm recovered if everything goes well. I figured right after it happened that it must have been hurt because those particular muscle structures weren't used for bicycling and therefor weren't prepared to handle the sudden extension (probably made worse by sudden twisting for the panic unclip). *Weird, though, how I could still ride bike pretty much fine with an acutely debilitating leg injury. Get someone to examine the sole of your foot in case you have something embedded in there tweaking at a nerve. It may have happened another time and the skin healed over and its just that you've managed to iritate it. Give your feet a good soak in hot water with your favourite bath salts. |
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