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lower quad muscle soreness on RR#2

Hi!  i wanted to get a little bit of feedback regarding some symptoms I felt during my second race rehearsal: 

My quads, in particular, the vastus medialis (the interior muscles just above the knee & on the inside), became noticably sore around ~5:15 of 6h.  Initially it was on both sides equally, but then it essentially became just my left side.  This is definitely muscle soreness/tiredness, not joint pain, but I rarely ever get muscle fatigue on rides of this nature...  Thankfully on the run it did not bother me at all.  However, this gives me pause because I am just back from a sacroileal joint rotation on my "*right* side.  It had caused quite a bit of hip pain on my right side (in addition to calf strain & knee pain).  I am wondering if the left knee fatigue is at all related to my hips being rotated back to anatomic normal (had a slight rotation for a ~ year beforehand then just recently was pulled even more out of alignment)... Maybe it's also that week 16 was my first week at 100% after three weeks of below normal training, and then to tackel RR #2 in week 17 was just a bit of a stretch? 

Do you have any suggestions for what I should consider leading up to and during the race, given the injury history?  I am happy to report that I felt no lingering muscle soreness in that area over the remainder of the weekend, nor did my hip start to hurt at any point.  However, clearly, there is still a little something up with my body.  Thanks in advance for reading!! 

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