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Pintsized wrote:
In my experience the pain of riding hard isn't like the pain of an injured back. A hurt back seems to me far worse than a quad burning from a hard sprint, say. It's an ache that makes you feel like you are just going to cave in. Horrible.

There's more. The pain of riding hard is...well, J. S. Mill the philosopher referrd to pains that produced pleasures later. The pain of riding hard seems to be that kind: even when its bad, you can sort of try to put up with because something might come of it later. Whereas, when your back hurts because it's injured, it just (which J. S. Mill did not say) f---ing hurts. Allowing the pain to continue doesn't help some pleasure happen later.

I'm not trying to make light of anyone's pain issues and I hope it doesn't look like I am. Just being conversational.

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My bad. I should not have put my last sentence in my response. I should have started a new thread (enough hijacking in this thread already) or at least a seperate reply. I included it only because it was related to pain and cycling or prohibiting one from cycling. Based on your summarizing of Mills, I take it you agree with my masochistic statement. We, avid cyclist, enjoy the hard ride pain because we look forward to winning the sprint, having a good personal time on a climb, taking care of our bodies (future better health), etc.

In response to your first comments, I 100% agree. The pain from riding hard is nothing compared to an injury pain. I too have back pains, but its up around T3-T5. When those flare up and spasm, I can hardly breathe. I must take short, shallow breaths. As I recover (few/many days/weeks), I can ride my bike with little problems other than I can't ride hard because I can't inhale deeply. But as far as riding position, I have no problems. I can even get low on the drops and have no additional pain. It's just breathing, which I sorta like to do, is difficult.

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