I went in to see my doctor this afternoon to look at my knee. She wants me to take the rest of the week off the bike and see how it feels next week. If I have pain next week than she thinks seeing a Physical Therapist (PT) is in order. I laid out my plan for working my knee out, with resuming weights and she thought that was a good idea starting next week. She didn't object to me skating though.
I went out for a skate tonight, 4.77 miles worth of skating. It's not bike speeds, but I averaged 10.29 mph, my max speed was 21.74 mph. I know some of you might be wondering how I got those numbers. I took an extra Delphi cycling computer I had laying around and hooked the speedometer magnet to the spokes of the wheels and the sensor on the chassis. Knowing my skate wheels are 72mm I was able to compute the wheel size and enter that into the computer. Now I need to figure out a way to measure my stride strokes which would be akin to cadence.
Just kidding, I have a Garmin Forerunnuner which straps to my wrist, so it gets data from GPS.
Jun 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM That's no good! At least it's only a week though and it's just to see how it's doing!
I have to go back to the orthopedic dr. here in the next couple of days...my knee has been bothering me as well but I'm pretty sure it's from the wreck and not "just" from cycling.
Hope you get better soon!
Jun 10, 2008 at 9:29 PM I interpreted her "week" off the bike from last Sunday when I last rode. So I'm almost 1/2 way there.