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På grund av ryggont var jag tvungen att vila från cyklingen i en vecka. På söndag kväll gick jag ut och cyklade med min 6-åriga son Oskar (lungt tempo). Efter några kilometer fick jag svåra smärtor i båda benen. Smärtan påminner om kramp. Benen blir mycket stela. Det gjorde så ont att jag hade stora svårigheter att ta mig hem.
Väl hemma stretchade och masserade jag musklerna. Dagen därpå hade jag träningsvärk och kände mig mycket stel. Tog ändå en kort cykeltur med Oskar för att bada. Snart var smärtan tillbaka i benen. Idag tisdag kände jag krampen komma bara genom att gå.
Jag har råkat ut för dessa problem ett par gånger förut. Problemen uppkommer bara efter en längre tids regelbunden träning och alltid i samband med en kortare viloperiod (>2 dagar). När smärtorna väl satt igång tar det ca 1 vecka innan jag är fri från dem.
Har någon stött på detta problem? Jag har hört mig för i olika diskussionsforum på nätet om någon annan råkar ut för detta och i så fall vet vad det beror på / hur man undviker problemet. Jag några svar från cyklister i USA.
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Viktor R
Date: May 04, 2001 12:06 PM
Author: Jack Hutchinson (jhutchnh@aol.com)
Subject: Very familiar
Viktor - I've that syndrome also.
I've worked to the limits of medical resources I've been able to recruit with no progress including multiple CPK tests (gets quite high), muscle biopsy (showed nothing).
I have learned to never take two successive days off the bike when I'm in race form. Light riding doesn't help, I must do some work. I also note an association with travel - air or auto - where I'm seated for eight or more hours.
If I fall into the syndrome it takes up to ten days before I can ride again. Cramps are pretty completely debilitating, in all riding muscles, and sometimes initiated by simply walking down a few steps.
I have managed to pull back from the brink a couple of times - just starting to cramp and rode moderate intensity through them. I've also failed to avert them despite 40miles of riding through cramps - and understand this can be bad for kidneys and muscles due to all the muscle damage I'm doing (it was painful).
My current response if/when it happens will be to minimize the cramping by resting, massaging and stretching until the episode has run its course. I understand now that the intense cramps are best avoided.
My first episode was at age 23 during a layover 3k miles into a long tour. Second was 26 years later after a race crash when I eased up riding due to knee strain. I've been through it three times since, twice associated with travel coupled with breaks in riding.
I'm interested in anything we can learn about this. It is not common, but there are a few of us who experience it. It's always a threat/consideration in my planning.
Anyone else?
I have more specific detail on this in a file elsewhere, let's see where this goes.
Maybe keep a log? I've found it difficult to get MDs to take in the syndrome accurately because they recast the facts into something familiar to them. I don't think this has ever been described in the medical literature. I've had sports med people take it to conferences and come back with no leads.
Jack
Date: May 04, 2001 03:19 AM
Author: RJ
I experience the same thing after only a 2 day break. I usually get the cramps in the gluteal muscles. One thing I have found to help is to do some stretches that really stretch my glutes (I also stretch quads and hamstrings just to be safe). Also on that first ride after the layoff I have found for me that pushing a bigger gear at a low cadence seems to lessen the severity of the cramps if not eliminate them. Of course the best solution is to only take off one day.
På grund av ryggont var jag tvungen att vila från cyklingen i en vecka. På söndag kväll gick jag ut och cyklade med min 6-åriga son Oskar (lungt tempo). Efter några kilometer fick jag svåra smärtor i båda benen. Smärtan påminner om kramp. Benen blir mycket stela. Det gjorde så ont att jag hade stora svårigheter att ta mig hem.
Väl hemma stretchade och masserade jag musklerna. Dagen därpå hade jag träningsvärk och kände mig mycket stel. Tog ändå en kort cykeltur med Oskar för att bada. Snart var smärtan tillbaka i benen. Idag tisdag kände jag krampen komma bara genom att gå.
Jag har råkat ut för dessa problem ett par gånger förut. Problemen uppkommer bara efter en längre tids regelbunden träning och alltid i samband med en kortare viloperiod (>2 dagar). När smärtorna väl satt igång tar det ca 1 vecka innan jag är fri från dem.
Har någon stött på detta problem? Jag har hört mig för i olika diskussionsforum på nätet om någon annan råkar ut för detta och i så fall vet vad det beror på / hur man undviker problemet. Jag några svar från cyklister i USA.
Hälsningar
Viktor R
Date: May 04, 2001 12:06 PM
Author: Jack Hutchinson (jhutchnh@aol.com)
Subject: Very familiar
Viktor - I've that syndrome also.
I've worked to the limits of medical resources I've been able to recruit with no progress including multiple CPK tests (gets quite high), muscle biopsy (showed nothing).
I have learned to never take two successive days off the bike when I'm in race form. Light riding doesn't help, I must do some work. I also note an association with travel - air or auto - where I'm seated for eight or more hours.
If I fall into the syndrome it takes up to ten days before I can ride again. Cramps are pretty completely debilitating, in all riding muscles, and sometimes initiated by simply walking down a few steps.
I have managed to pull back from the brink a couple of times - just starting to cramp and rode moderate intensity through them. I've also failed to avert them despite 40miles of riding through cramps - and understand this can be bad for kidneys and muscles due to all the muscle damage I'm doing (it was painful).
My current response if/when it happens will be to minimize the cramping by resting, massaging and stretching until the episode has run its course. I understand now that the intense cramps are best avoided.
My first episode was at age 23 during a layover 3k miles into a long tour. Second was 26 years later after a race crash when I eased up riding due to knee strain. I've been through it three times since, twice associated with travel coupled with breaks in riding.
I'm interested in anything we can learn about this. It is not common, but there are a few of us who experience it. It's always a threat/consideration in my planning.
Anyone else?
I have more specific detail on this in a file elsewhere, let's see where this goes.
Maybe keep a log? I've found it difficult to get MDs to take in the syndrome accurately because they recast the facts into something familiar to them. I don't think this has ever been described in the medical literature. I've had sports med people take it to conferences and come back with no leads.
Jack
Date: May 04, 2001 03:19 AM
Author: RJ
I experience the same thing after only a 2 day break. I usually get the cramps in the gluteal muscles. One thing I have found to help is to do some stretches that really stretch my glutes (I also stretch quads and hamstrings just to be safe). Also on that first ride after the layoff I have found for me that pushing a bigger gear at a low cadence seems to lessen the severity of the cramps if not eliminate them. Of course the best solution is to only take off one day.
