Back on the Sunday group ride.

I'd quietly downgraded myself to the short route. Three months later I'm finishing with the group again. My wife noticed before I said anything.

The downgrade happened so gradually I didn't really admit it was happening. You take the shorter loop once, then it becomes the loop you take.

I use it on the quads before the ride and on the lower back after. The lower back was the thing that used to end my Sundays early.

Individual results vary. This is a personal experience shared voluntarily, not a clinical outcome, and it is not typical or guaranteed.