Pain in the front, inside of the knee... means?

[KSH]

For the replies and advice ladies.

Yea, I rode 25 miles today and the knee pain popped up on my right knee, on the inside, again.

I loathe having to go back to the bike shop... but I can't ride in pain... and I have the MS 150 (riding 150 miles in 2 days, but I have heard it is really around 180 miles) coming up in May, and I need to get this fixed before that happens!

[spazzdog]

Could be a simple overuse injury...

How many days per week are/were you riding? Do a little RICE...

Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

Plus a little Advil and you might be surprised.

My raking leaves injury is getting better with RICE and Advil Liqui-gels (every 6 hrs) Should be in the saddle tomorrow, weather willing.

[KSH]

Could be a simple overuse injury...

How many days per week are/were you riding? Do a little RICE...

Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevation

Plus a little Advil and you might be surprised.

My raking leaves injury is getting better with RICE and Advil Liqui-gels (every 6 hrs) Should be in the saddle tomorrow, weather willing.

I only ride 2 days a week... at the most. So, it's not overuse, that is for sure.

And, I know it's pain from my bike, and my positioning, because I can get on a bike, and my knee will hurt... and then I can go run and I have absolutely NO knee pain.

I am just going to have to take it back to the shop and have them refit me... AGAIN! UUGGGGGHHHH.

Thanks for the advice though! I will take some Advil tonight!

[CorsairMac]

Just a thought - you might have someone different at your LBS do the fit this time. Or even look into investing in a professional fit. If you don't have any pain running - then I'm guessing it's something about either the bike Or the pedals. A professional fitter would probably be worth the expense in the end.
Ladies: any suggestions on where KSH could find a professional fitter?

[spazzdog]

Pedals: are you using clipins?

If yes - check the positioning of your cleats on the shoe. If they are scattiwompus then it's putting an "un-natural" angle on your pedal stroke.

When you run or walk whats the position of your footstrike?

Sample: Using myself - I toe in (from the hip)... when I first got clipins (SPDs of the LOOK or TIME variety), the cleats were installed "straight". It caused pain in several places for me; shins, knee... and my feet felt "wierd" in the pedals.

I had one of my infrequent brainstorms one night and fiddled a bit. I re-mounted my cleat so that the position allowed my feet to point the way they wanted to. End of problem... except I hated the pedals (but thats another story).

I switched to Speedplay (X2's) which are free floating and I don't worry about it anymore.

spazz