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So I have a knee injury since October it was getting better but now it’s got worse again. I don’t know what’s really wrong with i have seen 2 different physios and it’s fine according to them. Just had a bike fit and turns out it’s the fit that has probably caused my issues.
I am signed up for the Dirty Reiver and I feel like I am running out of time.
Is it possible to train for this sort of event without riding more than a couple of hours a week? Or should I just sell my place? I think I need at least a month off the bike. Then hopefully it will be ok to get back riding but then I would only have 2 months to train on the bike.
I am pretty fit could probably do a 80 mile ride on the road at the minute but it would destroy my knee. Obviously Dirty Reiver is 120miles and off-road.
My 2p - Sell your spot, get fit then find a new target for the year, don't make the mistake I have made before of 'sucking it up' for a big event then both not enjoy the event and ruin the rest of the summer with an injury. By selling you spot the event stops hanging over you and you can rehab at the needed rate.
There are many good events around and DR will be there next year, if fit you can be too.
What tiim says. You have two knees, prob 40 more Dirty Reivers to enter before you're back to the mud - rest and build it back up.
I guess if it is just the fit there's the possibility that sorting that out will make everything right, but is this really the case if you say a road ride (on a presumably well-fitting road bike) will destroy the knee right now? If there's nothing wrong in the sense of an acute injury, then it's usually an overuse situation which needs rest and return to form addressing the root cause.
Is it possible to train for this sort of event without riding more than a couple of hours a week?
I've done it twice last one i did it with a couple of hours riding since christmas!
The one before i built the wheels two days before. Its a long day in the saddle and you're obvioisly injured which is different but its not a "hard"event to do.
Thanks I think I know the answer just don’t want to accept it.