Recumbent or Track?

[PhilDawson8270]

I'm struggling with my right knee at the moment. A knee injury plus a duck foot (toes out around 30 degrees with a straight knee), means it's difficult to get a bike to fit.

Short sprint stuff is fine, but when I push the distance up to 25 miles plus, I have days of knee pain, I would need excessively long spacers to get enough heel clearance.

Do you generally have more clearance on a recumbent cycle? Or am I better giving track cycling ago with the intention of shorter more intense sessions?

 

[midlife]

Unless it's changed a lot since the 70's track cycling can get pretty boring as a form of exercise. 25 miles of riding around a track is pretty mind numbing.

Shaun

 

[Citius]

Unless it's changed a lot since the 70's track cycling can get pretty boring as a form of exercise. 25 miles of riding around a track is pretty mind numbing.

Shaun

Not quite sure what you mean by this. Track cycling takes place around an oval loop - always has done - so riders have been riding around in circles long before the 70s. A regular 2-hour coached track session is one of the best forms of performance-specific exercise you can get. If you find it boring, you're in the wrong sport

 

[midlife]

Maybe it's me, I also found training on rollers uninspiring as well.

I'm not denying that it's a way of improving performance but not for everybody I guess. Like grass track racing

Shaun