more notes on back pain

So yesterday's road ride led to a minor amount of pain-in-the-back or as it should more properly be called "pain-in-the-ass"

No big surprise here, but what seems to be going on is that I am re-aggravating the pulled gluteus medias injury from a few months ago. Sooo..... as one of my favorite sports training books likes to point out, "More reps at lower effort often leads to better results than fewer reps at higher effort." So less standing up and pedaling on the uphills. More shifting down into an easier gear. Less sprinting and pushing myself into oxygen debt. More cruising along at higher cadence.

We'll see how this all works out in the sphere of running because so far I haven't noticed any correlation between running and back/gluteus pain.

Today I might go running if the weather doesn't just dump in the late afternoon.