Uh-oh


It was a dark and stormy night. Ok, it wasn’t stormy. In fact, it wasn’t even night—it was 5 am. But it was dark, for darn sure. Except for the almost-full moon, which lit my pathway to misery. Misery because that morning, Tuesday, I went out for a run and ended up re-injuring my piriformis.

At least this time I know what it is and I know how to treat it. I’ve already seen Dr. Jess, who told me to revert to running 4 slow minutes and then walking for 1 minute. I’ll do that, but not until I’ve spent a couple more days not running. Yesterday and today I went to the gym for some bike / rower / elliptical cardio and supplemented that with some strengthening exercises and some targeted stretches.

Things may work out. Because this weekend and next I am unavailable to perform my duties as a pace group leader for the Oakland Running Festival Half Marathon training group, I won’t be called upon to do a long-ish run for another 2½ weeks.

Fate was unkind enough to injure me again, but fate has also been kind enough to give me some free down time in order to heal. Oh all right, fate didn’t injure me—I did that on my own. But maybe fate made the timing of my injury as good as any injury timing can be. For that, I’m grateful.

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Merrilee said…
Hey dear, was missing you on Saturday and now I know why. Look forward to seeing you next time and glad you know how to take care of yourself!
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