AM: woke up, met jamie, and limped 2 blocks and decided to not make this worse. Walked home and am currently icing the hamstring tendon. Damn I hate injuries. This will keep me from getting to 80 miles this week. I have had this type of injury before, but not this bad. I really could only limp because it hurt to fully extent my right leg and it hurt to step on it extended or not. Jamie often says that if you can sprint without undue pain, you can run distance. Well I definitely could not sprint on this.
PM: 1hr on stationary bike. Its probably because I am so used to running but the bike is so hard, even at equivalent heart rates. I was spinning 90-100 at a resistance of only 5(whatever that means, but it wasnt much resistance) and had a heart rate of 120 but I felt like I was really working. I have often taken my hr at the end of a run or in the middle during a stretch break and I am usually around 130 for easy runs. But the running feels much much easier than the bike did. Anyway, I was just grateful that I could get a workout without hurting my leg worse. This will only be a few days. And I will stationary bike morning and evening when I can't run from now on now that I know it doesn't hurt the injury.
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