Interesting ride this morning. I don’t have clip-in shoes and peddles, just the classic flat peddles. This means that I only get power on the downward part of the peddling motion. When in the cycle does that start exactly? What I noticed is that if I start pushing too soon, then I’m not so much pushing the pedal forward around the cycle as pushing the pedal straight towards the center. That’s not helping really at all, and also I feel it in the knee, especially my left knee (not the one I twisted). It was a good, long ride, with plenty of time to focus on technique.
Today’s ride was a 12.38 mile hills/rolling hills route. Pace was 4:26.