An interesting run

Well, the run itself wasn't so interesting. I did run in a new place, well, a place that I ran once before but just did it for longer. Anyway, it was after the run that got interesting.

Let me backtrack to last Saturday. I had just stepped out of a car and was still all snotty from being sick. So I hacked up some phlegm and went to chuck it far but when I did, I had stepped forward on a wet painted line in the parking lot. Apparently those get very slick. So out my right foot went, so very far. So much so, my knee actually bent the OTHER way, downward, and I felt my hamstring pull and felt a tear. I could hardly get up from that position since my knee was locked. It hurt but not like an immense sense of pain but I knew something was wrong. Then I felt a numbing sensation. My whole leg went to sleep. Pins & Needles galore. It took a few minutes to get ANY sensation back in my leg. I couldn't even get in the car. All day, I could feel that something was off. But I wasn't limping at the expos I went to.

Now to Thursday nights run. I ran the 10k I wanted. I had soreness in my thighs as usual. So thinking it was an IT Band issue, when I got back to the apartment I decided to stretch. I did the normal IT Band stretches and it felt good. I decided to go further into stretching, which I hardly ever do. I bent down to touch my toes and I felt the same right hamstring pull and start to hurt. Not good. So I decided to stretch some more thinking, it was just tight. I did the butterfly, that felt OK. Then I put my leg out and reached for my toes and it felt OK on my left leg, my right leg, not so much. Bad feeling again.

I hobbled when I went grocery shopping. I couldn't kick out my right foot without pulling on that hamstring and hitting that nerve that sent a bolt through my leg. So I ended up taking really small steps. I took an ice pack and put that under my leg for a little bit that evening.

Friday morning, I could feel the hamstring a little bit. But I still decided to err on the side of caution. So Friday at work, I took a Lean Cuisine and used that to ice my hamstring. That lunchtime when I went down to do some weights, I didn't do the hamstring curl machine at all. I didn't want to aggravate it.

Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 674 ft Location: Geneva, IL Elev. Gain: +13 ft Date: 03/18/10 Up/Downhill: [+167/-154] Time: 05:37 PM Difficulty: 2.2 / 5.0 Weather: Fair 58 F temp; 55% humidity 58 F heat index; winds SW 13 G 23 Performance Distance: 6.20 miles Time: 0:58:00 Speed: 6.4 mph Pace: 9' 21 /mi Calories: 659 Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 07 -0' 14 6.6 +0.2 +9 ft 2 9' 21 +0' 00 6.4 -0.0 +3 ft 3 9' 35 +0' 14 6.3 -0.2 -26 ft 4 9' 33 +0' 12 6.3 -0.1 +16 ft 5 9' 21 +0' 00 6.4 -0.0 0 ft 6 9' 21 +0' 00 6.4 -0.0 +16 ft end 8' 37 -0' 44 7.0 +0.5 -6 ft Versus average of 9' 21 min/mile

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Categories: 6 miles, Geneva, hamstring, hyperextended knee