Biking Log: 40+ miles from Torrey Pine to Ocean side and back.

This morning I started from Torrey Pine State beach parking lot and head north toward Oceanside. This was my first time riding along the coast which I was looking forward since a few weeks ago. I purposely skip Torrey Pine hill since I don't think I am quite ready for it yet.

Riding along the coast was nice and pleasant. Around Carlsbad I meet up with James and continue to ride north. It wasn't as hard as I thought to manage around the road traffics since there is bike lane for riding north bound.

We reached Oceanside and walk around on the pier for about 15-20 minutes and started riding south. Around Lucadia arera, there wasn't bike lane, so we have to ride around a lot of road traffic. (I think we missed a turn off somewhere).

By noon, I was really exhausted and just didn't seem to have energy to pedal anymore.
We stopped by Swamis Cafe to have brunch and finish the last 5 miles back to the car.

Total mile was 40 miles.

The Route
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1353066

Biking Log: Indoor trainer for 1 hour

Work is still going to be busy for this entire month and next. Daylight is getting shorter which didn't help my training. I decided to pick up a CycleOps Fluid2 indoor trainer so I can do ridding at home at night. I figure if I'm going to be watching TV, I might as well doing some ridding.

Spend about 30 minutes putting the indoor trainer together and setting the bike on it. I did about 1 hour of riding and couldn't seem to get my heart high enough. Not sure why this is the case.

Biking Log: 10+ miles from Carmel Creek Rd to Carmel Valley Rd.

I've been very busy at work this past week and by the time I got off work it was too late to go out to ride. I feel bad for not putting in any riding for the past week.

Saturday night, John messaged me and wanted to start biking. So we meet up and set him up on my mountain bike and we drove to Carmel Creek Rd Parking lot and start riding from there.

The long short, I ended up only putting in 10 miles of riding today which was not enough of ridding.
The important thing was that I didn't feel any more knee pain.

2nd Bike Fitting

Today, I went back to my bike shop and have another did another bike fitting.
The guy immediately thought that my seat was still too high over me and my knee was over extending. He made some quick adjustment by lowering the seat post and also move the seat forward or backward (I wasn't sure). I then rode on the indoor trainer for half hour to make sure the new fitting did resolve the knee pain issue and it seems like that was the case.

I left the bike shop and feeling much better and wanting to stop by Miramar lake to put in some miles however there was only less 1 hour of daylight left. I ended up going to Padres baseball game with James that evening.

Biking Log: 5 miles - Same Knee Pain

I meet up with riding group @ Loma Santa Fe Train Station parking and the plan is to ride along the coast. With plenty of rest from last week's knee pain, I was hoping the ride today will go smoothly without trouble. I made sure that I stretched and warmed up by riding around the parking lot.

As we met up riding group and only a few miles into the ride, my left knee started to have a lot of pain. Rosemary gave me a knee strap and supposely it can help knee issue, but it didn't seem to do much. Decide to part from the group and rode back to car and drove back home. On the way back, I called my local bike shop to make appointment for another bike fit.

Today was not a good day for me.

Biking Log: 15+ miles from Mira Mesa up to Highway 56 Bike Path (Knee Pain)

This morning I head out from Mira Mesa toward I-56 bike path. I had planned to meet up with Rosemary, James and others at Carmel Country Road Parking lot. However, 8 miles into ride, I felt sharp pain in my left knee, as each cycle of pedaling the pain gotten worse and worse. Simple riding become really painful on my left knee. I decided that I want to keep riding to the meet point at Carmel Country Road and meet up with James and others. Once I get there, I will stop there and call Ling to pick me up in the car.

I actually don't know exactly where the Carmel Country Road parking lot, and there isn't much sign along bike path to let me know where I am. As I continue pedaling slowly and trying not to think about the pain, I passed Carmel Valley road and continue to pedal east. After another 1 mile, I turn back was able to get a look at the freeway sign west bound and found out that Carmel Country Road exit is 2.5 miles east where I at. This mean I have rode passed the meet point by 2.5 miles. I decide to head back.

I use my cycle computer to count 2.5 miles to ensure I don't pass the parking lot again and I finally found the ram to Carmel Country road but I don't see where the parking lot is at. After looking around south of Carmel Country road, I actually saw James' blue FJ and found the lot. James already meet up with Rosemary and took of riding east. I called Ling up and she came to rescue me with my bad knee.

Today was a bad ride. I was very disappoint how it turned out. It was a nice cool weather and it seems like a very ideal condition for riding and I want to cover at least 40+ miles but I was not able to. My left knee continue to have pain for the rest of the day when I walk around. I wasn't sure whether when I work out I work too much on the legs. I doubt it. I did some research online and determine there are many factors that can cause knee pain. It seems most likely my shoe cleat alignment might be a probable cause to my knee pain. It looks like it gonna be difficult to preciously determine the root case of my knee pain. I will need to do a bit more research and trial and error next week.

Gym Indoor training

Today, went to the gym and work out my arm and legs and rode on indoor stationary bike for half hour. It was a nice ride and a bit boring and I wasn't sure I have proper seat and handle bar height adjustment on the stationary bike. My arm were really sored afterward and I didn't feel much on my legs.