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Thursday Jan 22, 2009 #
Run 1:38:00 [3] 20.0 km (4:54 / km)
I thought this would be a tough day and it was, but not really for the reason that I expected. I knew when I woke up (even earlier than usual because of a big day ahead at work - this time the alarm had a 4 in front of it) and the strong northerly was in that it was going to be warm. (What I didn't realise until I'd been moving for a while was that, unusually for Melbourne, the strong northerly was also quite humid).
It wasn't the heat that pulled me up short, though. I tweaked a quad in the closing stages last night; didn't think anything of it at the time, and even this morning expected that it would warm up, but it didn't. It was sort of OK on the flat but no good on any sort of hill. As the first 50 minutes of the run were along the Yarra this wasn't initially a problem, but at the Eltham bridge I decided I wasn't prepared to commit myself to my planned return route and its two significant climbs, and turned around, with the thoughts of doing an extra loop at the end if it improved. It didn't.
It feels like a similar level of injury to the hamstring strain at last year's World Cup in Norway. I hope this is the case, as that one was OK within 2-3 days; I'm looking forward to Baw Baw on Saturday and don't want to have to miss it.
It wasn't the heat that pulled me up short, though. I tweaked a quad in the closing stages last night; didn't think anything of it at the time, and even this morning expected that it would warm up, but it didn't. It was sort of OK on the flat but no good on any sort of hill. As the first 50 minutes of the run were along the Yarra this wasn't initially a problem, but at the Eltham bridge I decided I wasn't prepared to commit myself to my planned return route and its two significant climbs, and turned around, with the thoughts of doing an extra loop at the end if it improved. It didn't.
It feels like a similar level of injury to the hamstring strain at last year's World Cup in Norway. I hope this is the case, as that one was OK within 2-3 days; I'm looking forward to Baw Baw on Saturday and don't want to have to miss it.