action pause break

so the other week I had some acute pain that I attributed to an inaccurate cause. It happens. There's a long list of differentials and I wanted it to be the striped zebra. Turns out that I incurred another stress fracture. This time in my pelvis making it excruciatingly painful to sit on my bicycle seat properly. It was suggested that it was likely to have developed because I don't use regulatory riding shorts that have the cushy padding in the bottom. Lesson for the weathered cycling masses? Wear padded shorts.

I subscribe to cost efficient training and that means that I eliminate most of the things that would make my training and racing more comfortable like padded shorts, massage therapy, sleep. OUCH! It's not going to be fun on my bike for the next couple thousand kilometres.

I was thinking of becoming a one night stand kind of girl for the remainder of my years, but my goals in this area may be slightly hindered by this injury for now :-P