Yipee! After a 32 minute hill walk
on the treadmill at 10% incline, I ran for 18 minutes on 1% incline thus
completing a 50 minute workout last Thursday morning. It has been about three
weeks since I injured my left thigh while out for what was supposed to be 12
mile run (http://aboutlifeandrunning.blogspot.com/2012/07/arec-training-7-7-12-oops-something.html). My very conservative rehab plan was not to start running again until the pain was gone, but sometimes plans go awry. A week after the initial injury, I tweaked it
while exercising on the recumbent bike when I tried pedaling on a heavy gear. A
week later the thigh felt as if was healing pretty well until I did a weight
training workout called the clean and press. Wait, is that weight training or
dry cleaning? Anyway, on the fourth set
of the clean and press lift which of course involves the legs too, I felt a
violent spasm on the healing muscle and fell backwards because of the pain.
Fortunately my bed was right behind me and it made for a soft landing. With
that spasm, it brought me back to square one. I had my thigh wrapped at work
all night and developed contact dermatitis from it. With luck, we didn't have to chase any psych patients around that night.
I started hill walking on the
treadmill just a few days ago as part of my rehab. Previously I could only do the recumbent and
spinning bikes on light gears and couldn't even use the stairstepper because of
the pain. Today the pain is almost gone but still lurking. I can now do slow
non-jerky squats on body weight. I might try running on pavement in the next
few days and see how it feels and hope I don’t aggravate the muscle again. For
now, I’m still missing from AREC training. Darn, I couldn’t even chat with my
newly met running buddies L.
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