So I've been having some lower back pain off and on for a few years--most certainly related to poor sleep posture combined with bad exercise and biking. It finally spiked in the last two months and I needed to do something about it because it was affecting my ability to do things like sit or lay down or stand up or sleep :( Anyhow, when biking to work started to feel like something that was going to leave me in pain for the rest of the day, I finally started seeing a chiropractor. It's only been three weeks and I feel about 90% of normal again! We've even moved onto some other problem areas because the low back feels so much better.

 

I also moved to Plymouth from S. Minneapolis (but I've been biking mostly from New Hope this summer) since I stopped riding and started seeing the chiro, so a bike commute will be almost 40mi/day. Except for some shorter rides with Molly around town, next Tuesday is my first day back in the saddle for a real commute. I'm going to try to work up to it over the weekend with some trail riding, but if everything goes smoothly I'm looking forward to a hell of a great summer of biking.