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Sore Hamstring?

  • 21-04-2010 6:50pm
    #1
    onimpulse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 350 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    I'm hoping someone might have an idea what's gone wrong for me... I bought my bike about 2 yrs ago & got a bike fitting done then. Cycling on it since without any problems... I've done a lot of miles on it & plenty of long cycles - anything up to 120/130km... mountains, flat etc all was fine until a few weeks ago.

    My hamstring is really sore at the moment - and has been for the last few weeks, normally I get a long hilly cycle in at the weekend & I've noticed it's after this it's sorest & gradually recovers over the week.

    My saddle was dipping down so that I was slipping towards the front & I straightened it up a few weeks ago... thinking it must have been this but I never changed the height so not convinced?

    Any ideas - should I try lowering the saddle or will that cause some other problem?

    Thanks Guys!


Comments

  • #2
    Diarmuid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    I get slightly sore hamstrings if I hit the hills hard without sufficient warm up. Regardless the conventional wisdom is :
    sore hamstrings = seat too high
    sore quads = seat too low


  • #3
    uberwolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    lads, ladies. Without medical assessment you cannot be medically diagnosed.

    I struggled with a hamstring after about 2 hours into races, but never in training. It was an issue with a disk in my back. My point is that there can be a multitude of causes and effects and you risk greater injury 'treating' the wrong injury.

    Go see a physio.


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