Cured!

Finally free of knee pain!
The physio clinic at McMaster tried one more thing that fixed me pretty much immediately. I don't know the anatomy that well in the area, but there is a nerve that runs near the groin, through the psoas muscle (hip flexors). Basically they thought that being bent over on a bike compressed it, and that was adding to the pain, and potential muscle weakness. This made sense to me as the pain only occurred while I was biking. So to treat that, they wanted to stretch out the muscles in the area with active relief, and they gave me some hip flexor stretches to do at home.

Since then I have been doing my spin classes pain free, even did a 1hr 45min trainer ride fine!

Today I braved the cold and conquered my first ride back outside. Went with three other strong riders for a nice 2hr cross ride. I have definitely lost most of my form from early September :p Good thing april is still a couple months away because I am going to need a bit more work before I am good to race again. This is an easy building stage in my training anyway so I think I am right where I am suppose to be!

Once I get a few more rides in I will let you know about the Northwave Celsius boot. Wanted to do some winter riding to stay away form the trainer if I could so I picked these puppies off of Chain Reaction Cycles. So far so good!