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One of my mates has just been diagnosed as having this:
http://www.velonews.com/2016/06/feature/power-iliac-artery-endofibrosis-cycling_409438
Basically he loses all power in one leg when pushing hard...
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Yeah, I spent ~£1000 being tested for that, only to get "inconclusive" as the answer.
I can't believe with all the resources they have it took Dombrowski's team longer than me to pin down the issue. I mean, do US pros not know how to Google?
"If the athlete persists, eventually they’ll find their way to a specialist — after months or years of increasingly expensive tests — who will diagnose IAE." This.
I've also had Meralgia Paresthetica symptoms, which is a hip nerve impingement and is probably related to my TTing crushing everything at the front of my hip, hence my shift to shorter cranks to open up my hip angle.
I've basically ignored it all with no real solution offered. I still broke my club 25, 50 and 100 records having to sit up mid-race to get my leg working again. I could easily knock time off all of them if I could actually finish a race without carrying a dead leg for half the course! Don't really know where to go with it though. Surgery is a horrible option and anything else I do costs me a fortune so not being pro it's not really worth it.
I sent these to my fitter back in 2012:
https://cyclingtips.com/2011/11/exercise-induced-arterial-endofibrosis/
Got some responses from various forums too:
See: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=common+iliac+artery+kinking&t=ffsb&ia=web
hippy
I still need to find a solution for my dead leg / left hip problem. I'm basically riding with one leg in most of my races under 12hrs.