Rest? Rest? Who needs rest?

Indeed, there are a lot of muscles there - and all of this seemed to get started when I had a session scheduled to get stretched because my hip flexors were so tight. In retrospect I probably should not have done that - but I did not know. It won't happen again...

I've requested an appointment with my D.O. on Friday, if it calms down before then will just cancel the appointment (my dr. office uses the internet a lot for scheduling).

I still have to exercise, and I am not off the bike entirely - just limiting myself to shorter rides, taking a day off between them, and avoiding my country roads where I WILL over-do things. There has been some improvement, but this has shot my plan to have a century done by my 51st birthday all to pieces. My birthday is in 2 weeks and the longest ride I've had in the past 3 weeks was 50 miles...three weeks ago

My fitness club does have a spa where they do sports massage, it might be worth a conversation with them to see if a little massage might be in order.