[enjoytheride]

Thanks all. I definitely know I need a bike fit and have no problem paying the few hundred bucks for the fit (I should have done that in the first place it would have been much cheaper than all the doctor visits).

To clarify, those rides I mentioned (the two 65 milers) just stood out become they were the longest ones I’ve done, but I’ve always been an active biker and daily commuter. From Nov to March I did many smaller rides, maybe once a week, on that cross bike, anywhere from 6 to 20ish, some 30-40 mile rides. That’s why I’m convinced the pain is from straining my back due to improper fit on that and not anything else in my life, like sitting, because my daily life has not changed and that bike is the only thing that has changed/been added to my life.

I did commute daily (5 days a week, plus after work commuting and weekend commuting for social things and visits) for the past three years, and the past year my commute was 6 miles across DC to work, and then 6 miles home. I commuted on a single speed city bike with riser handlebars so I’m not quite upright, but fairly upright. Commuting never bothered me until the back pain got so bad in March that I couldn’t stand to ride any bike. Since March when I started doctors visits and they said I should stay off the bike until pt was done, I’ve maybe only bikes once every other week (when I needed to get someplace close, only a few miles away and it didn’t make sense to get there any other way but biking).

I guess after finishing 6 weeks of pt (knowing that I should have gotten a bike fit in the first place but unable to go back in time) I’m just frustrated that the pain is still there constantly and I still can’t ride a bike again pain free.

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