Dissapointed

Yesterday my back was really bad, the worst it has been. I woke up in the morning with the right hand side of my back now hurting and the sciatic nerve on that side being affected so I knew it wasn't good and it still wasn't even after my regular morning stretching - sitting for anymore than 30 mins at a time was uncomfortable.
I decided that seeing as I couldn't sit for any real period of time I would go shopping in a hope that the walking would also help to losen up my lower back a bit more. While I was out shopping I had to cough and the pain in the middle of my back was so fierce that I couldn't breath for a few seconds and was scared that my back had locked up. Thankfully my back hadn't locked up but I continued to cough during the morning and each time I was really scared and fearful of the sharp pain in my back.
I decided that it wouldn't be wise to participate in the afternoon track skills but went along and listened anyway.
Even after taking two nurofen plus tablets it hurt to do certain things, like sit down for too long, bend over to pick up my water bottle from the ground etc but thankfully I wasn't getting the sharp stabbing pains anymore and I could walk around with no discomfort.

Today I saw the osteo for my now becoming regular Monday appointment. I told him about what happened on the weekend with the gentle ride and the knee pain at the end of the ride and about Sunday and how now the other side, my RHS, is now also playing up. He worked on my back and advised of a slightly different stretch I can do for my hamstrings and told me to keep doing all the other stretches because even though I can't feel a stretch happening it is helping to keep my back mobile.

It looks like I just did too much on Saturday even though it was a gentle - medium ride. It looks like the time I spent on the bike was just too much for my back to handle at the moment. I know I can do 30 - 45mins or so of gentle - medium effort at track but it looks like 90 mins is too much so I need to find a nice balance so that I can continue to ride while trying to get my back better.

We discussed the ATB and I said that I have resolved to not doing any of the ride this Sunday because I would prefer to do the motorpacing at the track skills course in the afternoon. We also spoke about the Great Victorian Bike Ride in that it is 8 days of 50-85km's a day for 8 days and the lugging of my luggage etc combined with putting up and down a tent and sleeping on a very very thin mattress (which last year did cause a few issues with my back) and we decided that it was best I don't do the ride. It is a very physically demanding event and combine that with not being able to train for it 5 weeks away from the start of it and I realised I just wont be able to do it.

I asked if pilates would help and his response was that 'yes, it will, but not for a while because right now we have to work at getting the inflammation down before we can focus on trying to build your strength up so that you can try to do these rides in a years time, you have a very strange back!'. This was said just as I was leaving and I didn't have enough time to come up with the question of 'how long is this going to take?'

To say im not in a great mood tonight is a massive understatement.