tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13273897.post7290757287495747592..comments2024-02-06T10:16:40.971+00:00Comments on Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner: RehabilitationThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07802380462713592586noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13273897.post-62769561315929791242014-10-06T11:43:54.531+01:002014-10-06T11:43:54.531+01:00Double negative police : Parsing your not and no&#...Double negative police : Parsing your not and no's it seems you are taking pain killers and stretching then!<br /><br />From a programmer too. Funny how the with the English language you can read stuff and get the right meaning even if strictly it's not actually what was written, but what was originally meant. No only if the software I wrote would also do what I meant and not what I told it do I could get away with 2hr working days :-)<br /><br />Great to hear that the hamstring is on the mend. I wonder if keeping the pace down and route easy helps avoid taxing the muscle fibres that you strained, but gives the whole muscle a gentle workout to keep the heal processing moving along nicely. <br /><br />My guess is that fibres you strained were probably on the fast twitch spectrum, and only taxed heavily during hard hill sections and fast intervals. Your mention about working on the hamstring prior to injury suggests it was already over stressed, so in the zone of an over use injury. <br /><br />From my own experience of foam rolling/trigger point massage can help but I also suspect sometimes it's made things worse. I think working on knotted is OK if it's scar tissue that you needs to break down, but if it's any area of current injury that the body is healing attacking the region with aggressive massage could well push it over the edge and damage it more. I do wonder if this might have happened to me this week...<br /><br /><br />Robert Osfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16960356368117573952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13273897.post-16136458539151572922014-10-06T08:15:49.642+01:002014-10-06T08:15:49.642+01:00Hi Thomas
Just caught up with your post. Last Mon...Hi Thomas<br />Just caught up with your post. Last Monday I listened to William Sichel talk about his recent 3100 mile race in New York (round a 0.8 mile loop!). One of the things William said was that a number of the 14 runners had injuries that normally physios would say to rest but because they had to run 60 miles a day to completed the challenge in 52 days they carried on running and they all recovered. Very interesting! Anyway I hope your hamstring responds to your 5 miles a day and very soon you will be back to your longer faster runs. All the best.<br />John John Kynastonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16436853872576303518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13273897.post-29341041663515869302014-10-05T21:31:04.705+01:002014-10-05T21:31:04.705+01:00Awesome news about your hamstring! Awesome news about your hamstring! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13273897.post-84920923894056976172014-10-05T19:41:53.722+01:002014-10-05T19:41:53.722+01:00heal quickly thomas, hoping to see you in dublinheal quickly thomas, hoping to see you in dublinmartyhttp://martinlever.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13273897.post-4472245301444818502014-10-05T13:56:16.746+01:002014-10-05T13:56:16.746+01:00Thanks, Thomas. Good advice in there.Thanks, Thomas. Good advice in there.TokyoRacerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10293712044402763377noreply@blogger.com