Injury misery

Something has not been right since I returned from usa trip, I've taken it a bit easy by having recovery breaks and apart from a couple of Pete's sessions haven't pushed too hard.
Tuesday night I felt fine and headed off to do the big dipper.
Pretty soon was feeling an ache medial right thigh, buttock mainly - I felt fine going up hill, a little worse down hill and more pain on the flat.
I ran up perky and without too much pain up all the hills, but by the end was dreading the flat bits, and jogged along at the back in pain, silently feeling a bit glum.
I need someone who remembers what I have forgotten about muscles in the leg, I'm reckoning the hamstring/buttock pain post usa is a post flight thing which I should possibily have paid more attention too, but thats not the main problem now. I'm thinking I've knackered my adductot muscles the pain in at the site of adductor longus or brevus. My hunch is that the last Pete session did this, speed and grassy track working the adductor of my right leg more than my left.

So top of to do list this am - get me a physio and if they can't make me run I'll be off to see Martin Speight for a clever diagnosis

No go legs

The only sense I can make of todays run is that my legs were completely shot by Pete's shouty session on Thursday. I did give it all I had then some I admit and deserve to suffer. Yesterday and today my legs felt like they'd done some serious effort, but not wanting to be a wooss I set out along my favourite road towards Bolton Abbey. My anterior thigh and adductors objecting to much hip flexion i resorted to shuffle mode. Reaching mile one, I heard the rapid feet and heavy breathing of a rapidly closing in runner, turned around to be greeted by the welcome smile of my drinking buddy tonight Jon Sinclair. He humoured me by staying with me til I sent him off to do some proper running up Beamsley Beacon at Mile 3.5ish and I waddled along a bit more before turning round to finish 8miles.
The garmin tells a story, slow an average of 8:40 but heart rate 111 -so not much effort there, indeed that last 4miles were mostly in the 90's. So yes the legs just not working.
I really ought to do some stretching - maybe next week

Pete's Shouty session

Back down to the track/feild after work, no mincing around bounding and botty slapping this week, a few efforts across the field then (3x2min with 40sec recovery)x4 with 2min recovery between each of 4 groups. I felt like giving up after each group but somehow hit the track again. My legs are shot, my head hurts, I smell bad, Pete shouted at me - absolutely on the money quality session.

Getting out is the hardest thing to do

Oh dear what a day, walked into work to be greeted by senior member of staff weeping and saying sorry, which i eventually ascertained was for nothing worth getting worked up about much, then computer wouldn't work, then the wonders of teaching young doctors who thankfully didn't cry (well not in front of me), then off to see another work colleague long term off - more tears. Then a quick 10mins at home (no shouting no tears), then off to meet inspector of police, no I'm not in trouble, though we discovered a slightly different perspective on a matter of importance and suddenly it's 8pm, so did a Clarke Kent on the streets of ILkley and hit the road for 5miles of ..well I can't remember, I just ran and let the things that have stuck to me today wash off. So probably more therapy than physical training.
Finished in time to collect junior and get the dinner out of the dog, got home to find eldest finished with boyfriend.
Just patients for the next couple of days - bliss! - not often I say that
Out tomorrow night to meet friends after work - he just ran an ultra at weekend, so he'll inspire or shame me.
Back to Harriers Track session on Thursday - work owe me a finish on time!

Quality

In an attempt to freshen things up and after forever I went back to the winter session on the field by the Tennis club, otherwise known as Pete's sessions, though tonight was Peteless.
It was as I remember dark, occasionally nauseating, silly and excellent all round session - thank Neil for pacing and pushing just right.
We jogged,and bounded, then hoped and skipped then did it all again, then slalomed then shuttled, then slalomed again then ran round and round 1 lap, 2 lap, then slalomed again then 1 lap then 1 lap, then a bit of running, striding and bounding again then we went home.
I was pleased to keep up my pace in fact upping it marginally with every rep. The bounding skipping nonsense I think helped me stretch and warm my cold tight bits  and during the effort part of the drills I didn't feel the hammy at all.
Fool that I am I turned up in road shoes and impaled myself on a stake (thankfully blunt at the top) and sport an impressive bruise.
I'm sure this was a quality session and pushed me much more than running alone - so I will return (with grippy shoes)
I was suprised after the below par response of my body recently to put in some good effort,sustain it and keep up with the pace of others.
Not being a technical whiz I can't upload the mapped gps - which looks like a bad spirograph drawing.


Oh and VLM commiserations today :-(

Club run

Still worrying slightly re hamstring, but still resolutely avoiding stretching I made my first visit to harriers in ages. Didn't recognise a lot of the punters, and we were (or rather they) were 80% in hi viz yellow, which made me slightly worried they might trigger a migraine. Off I went along to burley, a run as dull as ditchwater, so grateful for a bit of chat and catching up. We did an effort from the bus stop by the bridge by the esso station to the burley roundabout so a tad over 2km then a regroup, then same effort back, I did same a shade over 4min per km with a strong finish. So not a bad work out, but ran through hamstring tightness and now calf pain. Hmmm,
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Finish the week

Post GNR rehab about done. Tried the banjoed hamstrings out on the road, left side fine, right one tight but runnable - looking like I will avoid stretching excercises.
Still nice late afternoon run round the ilk-addingham circuit. I love autumn light.
So nothing too frisky in the running dept next week and I hopefully back to basics the week after.
My little sister (not little at all these days) reports that she ran half a mile today in her newly acquired running shoes, now there's something, steady away Kate.
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