When I said that I would focus on cross season 2010, I was also hoping to do something before that. But on a day like today, I have to wonder. My pain is still there so it was time for a little self-diagnosis. I can tell you that it takes a PhD in Neuroscience to be able to sift through all the useless webpages before you find proper medical advice. Fortunately enough, I have a Phd in Neuroscience. Still I ended up consulting a sports medicine textbook available through the library at work.

The vastus medialis is one of the four quadricep muscles. This is the one on the inside of the leg which ends at the knee. Just down at the knee they usually call this VMO or vastus medialis oblique and this is precisely the muscle I seem to have strained.

A strong VMO helps to prevent runner's knee and the best exercises to build up strength in this are the leg press and, you guessed it, spinning! Damage to this muscle is commonly a result of improper bike position and too much resistance. I agree completely.

So I suppose I should go sit for several days at my local Vårdcentral to get this confirmed. But I am expecting that I will be out of service for 2-4 weeks more since that is usually how long things take.

This sucks.