I've recently developed a sore achillies tendon (AT). I am off to the sports physio in the next few days for a proper diagnosis. however, in the meantime, have been doing a bit of google self diagosis... never had any AT problems before, but I have in the last month switched to speedplay zero pedals, from Time. There is some information on line that suggests that Speedplays can let your foot and ankle over pronate(OP), thus over time leading to over stress of the AT once the calf muscles have had enough of trying to stop the OP.
http://www.byrn.org/gtips/triAT.htm
Question is, has anyone else found this to be a problem also? My shoe does seem to rock in an outward, over pronation position, albeit in a minor amount, still, this may be enough to cause a problem I guess.
I only ride, don't run or anything silly like that, and have been cycling for about 19 years now with no real injury issues to specifically speak of..
Look forward to hearing from anyone else
http://www.byrn.org/gtips/triAT.htm
Question is, has anyone else found this to be a problem also? My shoe does seem to rock in an outward, over pronation position, albeit in a minor amount, still, this may be enough to cause a problem I guess.
I only ride, don't run or anything silly like that, and have been cycling for about 19 years now with no real injury issues to specifically speak of..
Look forward to hearing from anyone else