Ouch! My Butt!

[Jo-n-NY]

Brandi,
I can't help you with your pain but if it makes you feel any better, I just switched to clippless last year & I have been riding a bike for many, many years. When my husband got them (and brother, and son) I thought they were all nuts until I started reading this board. Then found I was the nuts one, well more like chicken.

Anyway, I am hoping that this year clipping out will be more automatic than last year.

I hope you pain goes away soon and someone on the board here will know why it happened.

~ JoAnn

[mellic]

I had some muscular soreness in my thigh/bum when I first got serious about cycling. I had someone assess my cycling action and it was noticed that I had one leg that internally rotated through the pedalling motion. My cleat angle was then adjusted slightly outwards on this leg which allowed me to pedal without internally rotating so much. It did take me a little while to adjust to this new position but it did eliminate the muscle problems I was experiencing in my upper leg.

I would get someone to ride behind you and take a good look at what your hips, knees and ankles are doing when you pedal.

[Running Mommy]

OUCH! Hopefully it's not the saddle!
But you may want to have a good bike fitter look at your position. One of my cleats was positioned wrong and I had no clue. I was having terrible knee pain. He moved my cleat and I was golden. If you can't find one out there I can try to hook you up w/ Robin Oswald from the trinewbies forum. She lives in SLO and is a pro triathlete/coach. I don't know what she knows about bike fitting, but she could probably help you- or know someone who could...
Good luck! I hate bike related pain! I want to get on my bike and enjoy the ride!

[Brandi]

Wow, that might be it. I noticed it seemed like my feet were turning in. i thought that it was just me. My dh just told me he would adjust them and he was sorry he didn't tell me about them being able to adjust them. Thanks for the tip!