Pain Still Lingering

I leave for Colorado in almost two weeks and the back pain isn't showing much improvement. My doctor called in a favor to a physical therapist on Tuesday evening and had my newest treatment started on Wednesday morning. It's interesting how different specialists approach the problem. The Chiropractor is focusing on the piriformis which I believe is making a big difference. The therapist however is really looking at my hips as the problem. I've got a 1/2 difference in the height of my hip bones so he's addressing it by deep tissue massage, ultrasound, and lots of stretching. I'm hoping that between the two, things will start improving soon. Apparently my muscles responsible for external rotation of the hip are super tight and super weak. After therapy yesterday I went home and looked up everything I could about cleat and stem position on the bike. I didn't find much but I'm experimenting by moving both my cleat as far to the medial side of my shoe as I can. I tried riding today with the new change and call me crazy but I could really feel the difference in which muscles were working. My goal was to move alot of the lateral leg action back to the medial side. I found after a while the insides of quads were sore. I've been racing since I was 14 and was always told to keep my knees into the bike. Well my doctor wants me to change this and focus on just keeping my knees neutral, not outward but not inward either. It really seem to help. I did only 20 miles today but I'm going to do 60 tomorrow so I'll see how it goes.

Were going camping again this weekend but I'm on call so we'll see if I end up coming back into town for anything. I must say, camping is a perfect way to spend some down time with the family. The boys absolutely love it. What's pathetic is I think about missing two days of the Tour. Last weekend was the first day in the mountains so I recorded that, but this weekend I don't think I'll miss much. Hopefully not. I'm actually really enjoying the tour this year. It's a little boring but the talent of the top guys seems to be really close (not counting the dopers). I'm super impressed with Christian VandeVelde. He's kicking some good ol butt. If Evans wins though, he deserves it. I think Rasmussen screwed him last year so he's due for the win.