Saturday, January 25, 2025

I broke myself this week

Riding the plow bike all week in big winter boots. 

Was kind of ok most of the week until last night. Didn't impact sleep until then. And of course it was cumulative. 

I knew I had categorized the pain/bike fit keys. But took a bit to find. Searched bike fit seat height maybe it was searching saddle height that got me there. But I found it. Also found all the long Gloucester race write ups. When there was time for long essays. 


After plowing there was still a lot of ice, and I had to be at work much earlier than usual and so I kept riding the studded tire bike. The Crossrip + that is a size too small and has short cranks. But it has a motor and the really old studded tires. 

And the first few days were ok. 

I had put big flat pedals on it so I could wear the big Sorel mickey mouse like winter boots. And then never really tweaked the saddle height to compensate. And then I took the Montrose saddle off and put a Concor on. Without raising the post. 

Riding it while plowing isn't great but I'm not carrying a backpack. It's now dynamic. Put the backpack on and I don't shift around quite as much and it makes it worse. 
Three days in a row and I'm almost crippled, an in kind of constant pain. But I can find a spot to sit without pain. It's just the moving again. That is impossible. 

Gonna take a couple naproxen and see if I can figure out what to do. 

It's bad enough to have to deal with the emotional pain of what's going on, let's add some physical to the mix and get a shitty nights sleep. 

Amor Fati Morherfuckers 

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