Can you make out what this is? The clue's in the title. This is me giving myself carpet burn, or more accurately rolling the back of my thigh over a tennis ball to try and sort out the ouchy knot in my thigh muscle.
Confession time: I actually 'injured myself' not during the 60km walk on Saturday (as would be logical) but running too fast on a 500m dash to the cinema on Sunday as I was running late. Still pumped from my 60km achievement, I mistakenly thought I was Usain Bolt's long lost relation and well anyway I kinda overdid it and NOT actually being a long lost cousin, even 28 times removed, of the Sprint Master, well my knackered leg muscles went into protest and this knot thing occurred. Major bummer.
So last night and tonight - after pushing too hard on a couple of training runs, i.e going slow rather than uber sloooooowwwwww - {tonight it was taking me 7 mins to run just over a kilometer and that was my fastest length ;-(( } - but anyway when I 'push myself too hard' the knot makes its' presence known. Ergo the tennis ball comes out.
Actually I'm not convinced the tennis ball is heavy duty enough; alternatively my technique is all wrong. Either way I nearly set my bottom on fire tonight from all the back and forwards friction. Oops.
Post tonight's Learn to Run session AJ was making murmurings about trying a Sports Massage and I think she might be right (as always!!). Having a sports massage wouldn't even have occurred to me, left to my own devices, as it's something pro sports people and good runners have, not people, like me, who struggle to jog/limp to the lamp post and back. I feel like such a fraud.
Let's just hope I don't have to explain how I got myself in a knot xx
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