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Thu, Mar 06, 2008

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I'm restraining myself from running today because of my hamstring tweak yesterday. Last night after feeling but being unable to locate "the spot", I asked my wife if she saw or could feel a lump in the affected area. After about 0.02 seconds I let out a yelp. So obviously I strained something, but fortunately not too badly yet. Since today was supposed to be a set of cruise intervals, I figured that attempting the workout would likely make things much much worse.

So despite looking out at a sunny, warm day and looking forward to my run I'm stuck inside trying not to talk myself out of my decision. And trying to figure out why I've had similar problems with both hamstrings now inside of 1 month. Ideas appreciated.

Night Sleep Time: 8.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 8.50

Comments

From Benn on Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 19:12:24

I am not the medical expert unfortunately :( But you are in my prayers, and I hope you heal quickly! Just don't overdo it. Maybe ice and what not, and then test it out real gently to see if it's getting better? Does it have anything to do with your stretching routine? Maybe you need to do longer stretches for the hammys?

A couple of my favorites are laying on my back and taking a piece of rope, and pulling my leg straight up perpendicular to the floor and holding for 10 seconds x 3 ; for both legs, also I do the "figure four" where you place an ankle on the opposite knee, reach through and grab your shin and then rock backwards and push gently on the inside of the 'crossed' leg; should feel the pull on the outside of the hammy. Just my experience. Not sure if it will help, but just trying to throw out ideas for you.

Benn

From Dale on Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 19:18:04

Thanks for the ideas. I do the first stretch for 30 seconds at a time twice each leg. I haven't tried the second one though....I'll give it a shot this evening.

It's not too bad now but running speedwork today probably would've done me in....I'm just nervous because it's twice in one month now, both times on different legs.

But boy is it tough *now* to run....(I know, I'm preaching to the choir!)

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