If I ride much over 10km, my hands and feet 'go to sleep' i.e. painful, difficult to brake, pedal etc.
I know I should change my hand position, wiggle my toes.
any other wisdom?
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(10 posts)- Started 9 years ago by SRD
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Posted 9 years ago #
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I get sleepy feet sometimes. Loosening the straps/ laces on my shoes seems to help.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Specialized Body Geometry gloves helped me (I just can't ride more than, say, ten miles without gloves now that have the wee padding to protect the nerve that causes that issue).
Can also get Body Geometry insoles.
Of course it won't always work for every person, so a bit of trial and error really, but it might help.
Posted 9 years ago # -
+1 for loosening shoes and wearing looser socks to enable circulation - even buying a size up is good.
Also find that sometimes I get tingly hands if I have been gripping handlebars too tightly. Trying to hold bars more lightly and taking hands off bars when I stop at junctions/lights or freewheel (one hand at a time- if I tried no handed, my hands would be least of my worries) seems to help.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I found that I ended up with tingly feet for the first time while cycling during the Pedal for Scotland Classic Challenge, which I suspect resulted from covering a fair distance at a reasonable rate without as regular stops as would normally happen on a more casual longer ride.
I ended up wriggling my toes in my shoes and made sure to stretch a little when I did get off at the stops. My hands were ok, but I was varying position on my bar ends.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@SRD is this with drop bars?
Posted 9 years ago # -
no, tourer style on the tandem and straight with bar-ends on the folder.
to be honest, I'm not surprised/worried about my hands - have long standing issues with them, but the problems with my feet (especially left, same as hands), is new.
Posted 9 years ago # -
My left toes get a bit distant on occasion on very long rides but that's only happened since I switched to these shoes (where the left cleat can't go quite as far forward as I'd like) on these pedals (which just have the cleaty bit, not a surrounding cage, resulting in a definite pressure-point under the footknuckles) so will eventually not be a problem, when I either change my shoes or my pedals or both.
My hands really didn't like stop-start lots-of-braking urban riding on the hoods on my drops, where the reaction force to pulling on the brakes was borne upon the base of my thumb. Correct angling of hornbars and levers which are more parallel to my hands helps.
Posted 9 years ago # -
my feet go 'distant' when I run too sometimes. suspect I'll have have to live with it.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@SRD - next time you run try loosening your shoelaces a wee bit. Not so much that you get any heel rub, but just enough not to restrict circulation.
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