First off: in all my years of riding and racing, this is one I (and to date my doctor) can't yet firgure out:
Basically all the muscles on the back of my legs are sore - the same nagging, irritating soreness you have the night after you've done a long race like a marathon. No big deal per sé, but this has been lasting 3 weeks, 24 h a day. Add to that general lethargy and you visit the doctor (which I did). Blood tests for all kinds of viral and bacterial infections came up negative of course.
So you say: take a rest. I did: been sitting on the couch for almost two weeks now (apart from work, of course ). Yesterday was my first mountain ride in a while, and today I feel like utter cr@p again. Strechting. Massages. Checked my diet. Absolutely NOTHING is helping.
Any ideas on what may be the cause of this? It all started when a singlespeed race and a new desk job coincided. Hiddeously overgeared cycling compared with sitting in a chair for hours at a time for the first time in my life. Could I just simply be very, very tired?
Basically all the muscles on the back of my legs are sore - the same nagging, irritating soreness you have the night after you've done a long race like a marathon. No big deal per sé, but this has been lasting 3 weeks, 24 h a day. Add to that general lethargy and you visit the doctor (which I did). Blood tests for all kinds of viral and bacterial infections came up negative of course.
So you say: take a rest. I did: been sitting on the couch for almost two weeks now (apart from work, of course ). Yesterday was my first mountain ride in a while, and today I feel like utter cr@p again. Strechting. Massages. Checked my diet. Absolutely NOTHING is helping.
Any ideas on what may be the cause of this? It all started when a singlespeed race and a new desk job coincided. Hiddeously overgeared cycling compared with sitting in a chair for hours at a time for the first time in my life. Could I just simply be very, very tired?