Bike Fit
So after a few weeks of being in pain on the bike due to my back being tight and my shoe not feeling right, I finally booked an appointment for a bike fit. I knew that my position on the bike would need to be adjusted as I developed more strength and flexibility but I didn’t expect to be in so much pain. I decided not to mess around and booked a Retul fit. For somebody who’s totally a numbers person like me, this is the best thing ever. Using little infrared sensors attached to key areas of the body, the camera takes an image of you cycling for 15 seconds. From these images, the computer can calculate all of the key parameters and determine what adjustments should be made. The good news is that my crank length turned out to be perfect. There really wasn’t any bad news in that everything could be fixed but I was very disappointed to find that my handlebars were actually off-center by almost a centimeter!! That seems like a pretty amateur mistake. So the overall changes were a slight adjustment in cleat position, seat moved back about 3mm, seat moved up by probably over a 1cm, and handlebars moved down by 1cm. The change is amazing!
So today I was really looking forward to my first ride on the new fit but the wind today was ridiculous. Something like 30mph wind gusts. I wimped out and went to PH instead. I actually don’t think I can get away with calling PedalHard a cop out given how hard the workouts are. I found that I felt much better on my bike today and felt that I could push more power than I had before. When I did the actual analysis against my last session I don’t’ know that the data actually looked any better but I felt like it was better.