Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Intermittently you see online ads which are not exactly appropriate to the websites they're located on (or alternatively, sometimes a bit too appropriate), but today's example was a beauty - recruitment ads for Victoria Police appeared on the website of a bikie gang.

C • Which begs the question.... 8

A very early start this morning - an IOF Foot O Commission teleconference which started at 4am (must remember to change my alarm tonight). By the time that finished and I was ready to run it was close to 8, with the plan of a fairly standard recovery run. The hamstring sore spot from the second half yesterday was there at the start but I didn't think anything much of it, and after a grinding first few minutes was starting to move quite nicely. Soreness started to build up, though, from about 2km, and by 3km had reached the point that I thought I'd better cut the run short and come straight in (about 1.5km from that point). I didn't get that far; a few hundred metres later the discomfort increased to the point that I could no longer run (at least not in any meaningful sense), whereupon I walked in (not very convincingly).

I'm hopeful that this is just a particularly severe manifestion of back-related hamstring issues I've had three or four times in the last five years; the fact that the soreness built up over a few minutes rather than suddenly going bang makes me cautiously optimistic that I haven't torn anything (something which would presumably mean several weeks on the sidelines; four weeks seems to be par for the footballers). Starting to walk a bit less awkwardly by the afternoon but it will still be a bit of time before this comes good, I think. It will certainly be frustrating if I have a significant chunk on the sidelines at the start of summer for the fourth time in five years, just as things were showing signs in the last couple of days of coming together on other fronts.