Hamstring

Needless to say about the workhorse "hamstring" muscle. So if you don't treat it right, it would let you down. Why did you say that you asked. It happend today. So the boring story goes like this. It was the third half marathon attempt in five days. Couldn't even walk properly during the day. But decided to push the luck as you do. It was raining heavily, i mean poring. So slipeery roads i say.

So what happens here is when the the roads are wet you tend to take a conservative running stance. Which is use more of the use of hamstring than the lower leg. Also when you haven't taken enough rest or recovery time is low, the legs are tired already. So with all this negative input to legs plus bit of tiredness on the run, oh nearly forgot to say, going downhill too. Wham! the feeling of electrocuting on the hamstring. Hamstring is located at back of the head, no it is actually back of leg above the knee.

What to do, stop right right there, no more running unless you want the category three hamstring injury. That is when you cannot run for sometime with a muscle tear. Try to do mild stretching on the spot to ease the situation. But if you keep running it is asking for trouble. So what happened is; still raining heavily and 4 miles to the place of aboard. Weeeeelll options to get back are taxi, bus, hitch hike, get a ride on someone's pushbike or Johnnie Walker (keep walking my friend). Me being me took the last option.

So it is raining heavily, cold, no jacket on other than the thermals and T-shirt. Have an hamstring injury and mobility is slow. Not happy times but not whining, and have to understand it is part of the deal. Things not working out as planned it part of life and these are pretty much asked instances. So shivering kicks in after two hours in the rain. A mild hallucination when the coldness gets bad to worse. Arms and back just folded inwards. Walking like a zombie a one would say.

This is when you wish that angel would come along and say everything is going to be ok....... You look up hoping that sun would shine... try to think what hot days would seem. A smile on the face is thousand miles away. So proper run down in the dumps. Thinking this is not bad another mile or two would be able to have a hot coffee. What about the people who are stuck in a mine or stuck under earthquake ruble. What happen to folks who ended up trouble when they climb high mountains.......All sorts of thoughts coming..... At least people are around. So cant be that bad. So hobbling along finally got back and let me tell you, never been happy to comeback the dwell after run.

So what next, best is not to run tomorrow. See how the leg turns out. Better to go on the stationary bike as it is less impact on the leg. The Royal Parks half a marathon is days away... But the show must go on. Thanks for friday being the day off, two days away from running is not that bad. Hopefully Saturday would be able to run again. ]


So the moral of the story is take special care when running in rain especially if you are run down.....