Rib pain during/after riding

[MGM]

Have you had any kind of a fall lately, or lifted anything heavy? Two times in the past I've developed rib pain days after I did something that didn't seem major at the time. One time I sprained some muscles lifting a wet cinder block several days earlier. Last year I broke a rib taking a minor spill from a very slow speed turn while I was on a 30 mile bike ride. Got up and finished the ride. Didn't start becoming truly painful til the next week.

Just a thought.

[lemon]

No falls, no lifting out of the ordinary. I've had a broken rib before and I'm sure this is not that. Definitely a different (and much duller) pain.

Anyabeth, that sounds like it.

I went ahead and called the bike fitter, and am going to go in when I have my shoes and pedals. My shoes should be here Monday, so hopefully next week. I still feel a little silly and self-conscious about it since I'm a complete beginner, but I guess I'll just have to get over it. Thanks for all the help!

[Owlie]

I damaged something in my ribs back in November riding in high winds in a high gear, in a similar place (lower ribs on the right, front and to the side). How, I don't actually know.

Get a fitting done to rule that out.

[Anyabeth]

If it is intercostals there can be all sorts of things to set it off. It could be your bike fit - I am not experienced enough at biking to rule that off. But mine tend to get bad at my computer. They get stiff and then something like a coughing fit will set them off. I can imagine easily a scenario where being in one biking posture locks them up and then moving makes them cramp. Or having them be tight from another posture and then biking posture setting it off.