So a week ago I finally clocked a V40 sub 20 minute parkrun, with a 19:36 on the winter course in Cheltenham. It is four flat tarmac loops vs two hilly grassy laps. In theory much faster, but with it being deliberately a little longer (I think this is a parkrun HQ directive for reserve courses, others on here will no doubt know if this is true) and laps three and four involving a fair bit of overtaking, the differential in summer vs winter times isn’t as great as one might expect. Still, a good monkey to get off my back.
Easy Sunday and Monday, before ten minutes of weights in the gym on Tuesday. Two sets of light squats and straight leg deadlifts. My first since early summer so taking it deliberately steady. Headed out for a session of 5 x 1200 at tempo a short while later, but my lower hamstring, upper calf started to seize up a little at the end of the second set. It relaxed during the two minute recovery jog, but really seized up at the end of the third. Game over so had a walk of shame back to work, blessedly short at only half a mile.
Lucky enough to have a very good strength and conditioning guy employed at school - he runs injury clinics and more. Diagnosed it as a problem with the distal hamstring and a reaction to the straight leg deadlifts. He also laughed when he realised I was injured an hour after making a return to the gym. So much for good habits 😆. Absolutely agony later that afternoon and couldn’t even walk down to the fields for rugby coaching.
Loosened a bit since and I’m hopeful it’s not too bad. Have done a couple of rehab strengthening sessions and two lots of 20 minutes on the ergo (inspired by Reg). Found it easier to get HR to easy running levels on that than the bike or elliptical.
Can now do basically anything except running without pain. Strangely running and skipping drills all ok, even jogging backwards. But jogging forwards is too painful after five or six steps so will take a while longer.
Grateful really that I’ve gone this long since the stress fracture in 2020 before another injury. God knows how you cope, Reg, pinging some finely tuned muscle very other week.
Split Summary
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1) 1m - 8:05(8:05/m) 131/182bpm [1063b/mi] 173/190rpm
2) 1m - 7:38(7:38/m) 131/147bpm [998b/mi] 178/210rpm
3) 1m - 7:00(7:00/m) 143/154bpm [1004b/mi] 181/208rpm
4) 1m - 7:09(7:09/m) 142/152bpm [1017b/mi] 182/210rpm
5) 0.45m - 4:25(9:47/m) 135/153bpm [1323b/mi] 162/212rpm
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