Gotcha!

I haven’t said anything about my high hamstring attachment for a while, mainly because unlike “Stress Fracture, “ITB” or “Plantar Fasciitis” what I had didn’t have a nice easy name to say or type, High Hamstring Tendonopathy is a bit of a mouthful.

Anyway, it’s been getting better S L O W L Y, but it has definitely been improving, I haven’t hobbled around the house like an old woman after a long run or interval session for a few weeks now and I’ve been off the anti inflam’s for yonks. It’s still ever so slightly there though so the Doc is going to give me another couple of rounds of Shockwave Therapy next week. I am off to Cairns Thursday week so we decided to hit it again before I have an easy week with no racing planned.

When I saw the Doc on Friday I also had a bit of dry needling done on my back and hammy, it wasn’t particularly painful, except when I moved a bit on the bed, Aghhhhhhh, note to self, DO NOT MOVE when you have about a billion needles sticking out of your back and legs. Lately I’ve been feeling generally pretty crappy, really tired, in fact I have been waking up tired after not sleeping very well, serious trouble concentrating at work and my moods have been awful, quite negative and down in the dumps, it’s taken a heap of effort just to present a “normal” front to the world. I thought maybe my iron was down again, turns out that it’s B12, according to the Doc I am “very low” and all of the symptoms I described would point to that apparently, so not only Shockwave next week but a couple of B12 shots as well, that should perk me up again.

The last couple of Monday’s I’ve been taking myself to Lysterfield Lake for a run after work, the siren call started again around lunch time yesterday so I was back out there again in the afternoon. This time I went a bit longer and feeling like my hammy was probably up to it I decided to head up Wallaby Track for the first time in ages, it’s rather challenging 1.4km stretch of hill that rises about 270 metres. I may have had to slow down to about 6:30 kms to make it up, but make it up I did, no stopping, no walking, no crying, no swearing and ultimately about as comfortably as I have ever made it up that damn hill. The last bit is the worst, you think you are almost there and then it rises sharply over the last 100 metres or so, aghhhhhhh.

Then, I somewhat sheepishly admit, when I got to the top I turned around, pointed down the track and said “Gotcha!”, luckily there was no one around to see me, it’s bad enough that I talk to the wildlife, let alone the trail.

All up a 11.9km run that was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the 13.6km pathetic excuse for a long run I dragged myself around for on Sunday morning.

We don’t have AV Shield this Saturday as the program is being run on Thursday night this week (1500 for me). So, because I can’t get enough of them thar hills this week I am going to head up to the Dandenong’s on Saturday morning and try out some trails I’ve not used before, part of the route I’ve worked out is on the Trailwalker course I am familiar with but the rest of it will be new, should be fun.

PS
Have just finished 6 days straight, including 2 sessions and one track race and am now looking forward to a rest day, when I start looking forward to a rest day I know I have been working hard. Mona fartlek tonight and I ran like shit, actually I ran the session as well as I normally would (expect I lost count and only did 3 30 second intervals instead of 4) but I just felt like rubbish. Can’t wait to get those B12 shots next week, I need them as much as I need oxygen right now, I just want to sleep all the time.