Yeah…weird pain happening. After a few miles on the bike, I start to get a pain in the outside edge of my knee pit on my right leg. zero problems on the left leg It hurts only when my leg bends past a certain point on the upstroke. Doesn’t bother me when running, but I can duplicate the pain when I exaggerate the bend while running/walking. Started a ride or two after getting the new bike set up. First time, I took a few days off and the pain was gone. Went out for a 20 miler yesterday and sure enough, it flared up again. I feel nice and comfortable on the bike otherwise. I checked my shoes/cleats and they’re lined up in the same spot on both feet, so I’m at a loss. I have my first olympic this weekend, and while I don’t think it will affect the race, I need to get it sorted out before my training starts getting more intense.
I’ve had the exact same pain (on my right side) on and off for the last few years. It never occurs on my left side and is worst when I’m doing a lot of climbing.
I’ve found that I can mostly avoid it by lowering my seat. It’s a very fine line, if my seat is even a 1/2 cm too high, I’ll get that pain.
You might try lowering your seat just a bit and see if it helps. In my case, I believe that I might have a minor leg length difference and I’m planning to experiment with shims under my right cleat this winter to see if that helps.
This is overly simplistic, but generally: pain behind the knee is from too high of a seat, pain in the front of the knee is from having a seat too low.
When my seat was too high, I had the same thing, with pain only on one knee, not both.
Let us know. I have the exact same problem but got a pretty good fitting for the bike. It’s not impossible that the saddle is too high but I don’t expect it would be.
It was persistent, but did go away eventually. I found that standing on hard surfaces (tile floors, or one time, a cobbled street) would make it flare up.
From the article you linked: “To strengthen the muscle, sit on a high chair with your legs dangling off the ground. Using elastic tubing anchored at one end, wrap the other end around the inside of your foot and rotate your foot and lower leg inward. Use low resistance and high repetition, remembering that this is not a powerful muscle.”
Can you give me a bit better image of what the author is telling me to do here? Say we’re talking about my right knee. Is this correct: I sit on a chair w/the tubing anchored to my right and rotate my whole leg in from my knee down, kind of crossing my right leg over my left so that my right knee cap is eventually pointing to the right, parallel to the floor? Alternatively, is it a smaller movement where I rotate in a bit, but keep my right knee cap pointed up the whole time?
Thanks for the link, I’ve been struggling with my right knee for the past few weeks with exactly this problem.
I’ve got to admit, I never actually tried the exercises. I found this article toward the end of my problems, but when my mom was having similar issue - in her case, probably caused by too much Argentine Tango.