Bret

AM - 3 miles with Finn, Riley and her new boyfriend who came to stay with us over the holiday.   

AM - 6.25 miles in the neighborhood and about half on the golf course.   Hamstring strengthening exercises may have resulted in some fatigue - first mile or so was still painful and so I kept the pace really slow the whole way.   Really not very enjoyable.  

AM - 6 miles with Finn before sunrise.   Ran slightly faster and had slightly less discomfort in the hamstrings.   Did less "extra" strengthening exercise yesterday - as I think some of them that I did on the weekend, may have fatigued the muscles a bit. 

Went to PT this morning following my run - and interestingly, there was little to not pain on the insertion point (proximal tendon) but some tightness in the belly of the hamstring.   The physical therapist thought that was a little unusual too...in any event, she did some dry needling of the tight spots and some massage - and we went through a few new exercises to strengthen the muscle and tendon.   I expect this to be a lengthy process with some gains and losses day by day.  

AM - raining - so 5 miles on the treadmill - hamstring was a bit better today.  

AM - 5.75 miles with Finn in the rain - hamstring was poor today - not a very good run.  
 

PM - 3 miles on the treadmill- last 2 at below 7:30 pace and the last half mile below 7 mins just to test the legs - and build back a little confidence.  It was not easy but I did not feel as though I could not manage it.  Had PT this morning and so my legs were a bit beaten up.  

AM - Went to the trails to do a walk run with Finn, but got a text from Greg just as I got started to see if anyone want to run - so I did a mile easy with Finn as a warm-up of sorts and then when Greg arrived we ended up running fairly well with my hamstring not giving me too much trouble for the first 5-6 miles - which were just under 8 min pace - and then we stopped for his dog to jump in the creek and when we resumed the hamstring kinda tightened up and either it was fatigued or the stop/start thing had an impact - but it became apparent that the pain level went from a 2 to a 6 or 7 and I needed to back off the pace.   After one or two starts and stops to walk, I bid Greg a Happy New Year and he took off and I finished with a jog back to my vehicle the short way around - and called it a day.   Somewhat crestfallen with how well I was running to sort of have the wheels come off at the end.  If I had just finished the run at 5 miles I would have been very pleased with the day and the progress.  Anyway - I expect to have a number of these set backs - and will take it all in stride.   Happy New Year.   

This was day 670 on my run streak.  

AM - 5 miles with the guys and the dogs from Starbucks.  Hammy was very slow to warm up to normal movement - and then became a bit more painful near the end.  But it was good to see the guys to start the new year right with a run with friends.