Training Log Archive: Wyatt

Swim a mile after a big meal so I was slow. My hamstring seems to be improved non-trivially in the 24 hours or so after a swim. I'm not sure if that means it's actually healing, or if it's just some exercise-related self pain supression, but it may be helping. Too bad I couldn't get to a pool again for a while...

Event: NEOC Spring Rock Festival and Intercollegiates
 

10AM: W/water buoy

Plan:
- I'm repeating roughly what I did in the two weeks preceeding the GA Nav. Cup. I'm interpretting this as alternating days of a mile-swim, and a 30-60 minute slow grass/trail/terrain walk.
- No hamstring stretching
- Misc. weights are okay
- Some lower back stretching that was suggested by the PT yesterday (can't hurt, but not planning to put much time into this.)

Pain (as of 5pm)
- Seems like the leg is happier today. The burning has lessened and spread out (similar to previous relapses). It only a very light burn while standing and a tolerable but annoying burn while sitting (I don't _have_ to stand up.) It

Other stuff:
- I did a `5xheat, ~2x ice, and 2x600mg IB at some point in the last 48 hours.

@PT: Elliptical, Level 5, 40 rpm. Why so low? Well, it's because my leg is indeed deciding to have a major relapse. Yep. 6 weeks ago, I went ~4 days with no pain, then I ran 10 minutes (carefully) and was burning for a week (up to the hard to sit level). After than, I've done 5 weeks of PT, and very slowly ramped up activity. Apparently 10 minutes elliptical + upper body + 10 minutes elliptical was fine last week, but 15 + upper + 15 was bad. Or maybe it was the orienteering on the weekend, or maybe the Level 7 ellipitcal on Monday. Who the hell knows? Nobody.

So I'm quitting.

Probably just PT for now. Hopefully not the whole idea of running forever. I was thinking I'd just go back to the two weeks before the week in Florida (the last time I was pain-free for a few days), and repeat what I did in those two weeks. Good thing I kept an AP log of all this level 1 crap, so I have a log of what I can repeat that seemed to work.

Not sure how I can ramp up after getting pain-free again. Apparently it's gotta be markedly slower than what I did in Florida.

Oh, and I switched office chairs (with Angelica) to see if it will make a difference.

C • Noski. 7

Uphill backwards. Didn't feel too great - took a few minutes of random little pains for it to warm up. And this was easy last week.

Misc. hamstring stretching for PT - the last for a while. I don't think I need to write more about how frustrated I am. It's hard to even think what to write.

C • воняет 1

7PM: 2nd set of H/M/E/S/I- Only 50% arm strength on the Eccentric's due to:

PAIN: By afternoon/evening, it was hard to sit. Burning. Better while standing, but still burning while standing - bad. More later.

9:30pm: H/M/E/S/I. Still a little light on the Ecc. Hams. Usual spot still burning although at least the ice works.

15 minutes before, 15 after strength training & stretching at Gym. Machine 6, level 5, 57 RPM.

PAIN:
Hamstring not great today, but not too bad. Definitely burning still - I should look back as I think a week or two ago I had a few almost normal days. What happened?

1st HMESI, around noon. Leg already burning non-trivially while sitting.

3PM: Heat/Ecc. Hams/Stretch/Ice - Leg burning by the end of those

Generally today, leg has burned a bit more than yesteday, but I did do hard Elliptical at PT and I was sitting more

10AM: @ PT, Level 7, 47.5 rpm

Just after elliptical

A bunch of the normal stretching, plus the normal bridging, eccentric hamstring & concentric hamstring pushes into table. I tried the concentrics at ~50% effort, 5x20 seconds.

I think the concentric hams plus the hard effort of the elliptical were the roughest on the hamstring - although it seems okay for now (10pm)

and I mentioned the possibilty of starting water running to my PT and she said 'sounds great - just don't do more than 10 minutes'

Heat/massage/ecc.hams/stretch/ice