I ended up having chronic pain in my hip and knee. I took oral cortisone. Then had cortisone shots in my knee and hip. When the pain in the knee and the hip cleared up, I found I had aching pain in my left calf. It wasn't a recurrence of a the deep vein thrombosis I had in 2017. The pain was caused by undiagnosed spinal stenosis, for which I had cortisone shots in my spine. They didn't work but rest and daily physical therapy are helping a lot.

My experience during this ride made me a convert to medical marijuana. Edibles kept my knee and hip pain in check from Colorado to California. It looks like marijuana will be made legal in Virginia in 2013.