sporty: April 2005 Archives

So I noticed last week that I've been having problems with achyness on the left side of my body. Funny that I say "noticed" like this pain just occurred to me one day. In reality, it shoved its way into my realm of consciousness in the form of a very sore ass during my long ride last week. At mile 35 my bum started to ache and it was a loooong slog home. Did a little research and concluded that it was due to a tight piriformis muscle putting a little too much pressure on that big old fat nerve that runs into your leg. Ouch.

Rested for a few days and the bum pain seems to be gone (altho we'll find out if this is really true when I attempt to do my long ride tomorrow morning) but I've noticed that the muscles in that hip are sore. Not just "hmm... my hip is kind of tight sore" but "wtf am I doing to make the muscles around my hip hurt so bloody much?!" sore. Then I noticed last night during my swim that my shoulder on that side is also a little tight. Nothing too painful and god knows I suffered thru enough shoulder injuries in my swimming days to know that I can deal with this, but just something to make you go "hmmmm...".

Last night I tried to sleep on my other side and woke up noticing that all these various joints felt just a tad better.... so maybe there's something to that....