Knee Pain

So I continue to have knee pain while riding my bike. It has becoming a severly limiting factor in riding my bike and has been going on for a long time now. The cleat adjustments that I have made haven’t made a difference. I am trying to figure out what happened and when.

I went back through my workout notes. I am really glad I am fairly verbose in my commentary after all my workouts because it allows me to find things. So in reviewing those notes, I noticed that the first time I mentioned it was June 17^th, and in that comment I stated that it had happened a few times before that. So it started in May/June of last year.

So what happened in April or May last year? I continued to look through my notes and I discovered that I installed my new pedal power meter on April 18^th and thus the new cleats at that time as well. So in the 6 weeks following that installation my knee started to hurt.

My guess is that my initial cleat installation was significantly different than how I installed them with my power meter pedals. I took pictures of them before I moved them so they “should” have been the same. But maybe how they center in the pedal is different.

Since November this year I have been riding my new bike and the non-power meter pedals. But I used the same location as the previous installation on the power meter pedals so who knows.