April 23rd Saturday 8:30 p.m.

“Tighten Up”     Archie Bell and the Drells 1968

https://youtu.be/uN7vm-k-AaA

Today is the first time since I started running that I actually have tight hamstrings from a workout.  Now I haven’t run hard since the workout I did on Wednesday that I described as a 30- 20-10 workout.  During that workout I ran at Max Speed for 10 seconds 15 separate times.  Now I’ve counted the steps, that’s about 25 – the 30 strides in 10 seconds.  I can honestly say that is the first time I have it ever attempted to run at Max Speed in the last 5 years. The workout was going so well that day I didn’t think much about it.  I just enjoyed it.  So, that was on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday I was at the relay meet and did a recovery in the clubhouse.   Friday I did 4 miles that resulted in my junk miles rant.  Today I woke up just plain tired, all over body tired. I decided to stay off my legs, off the roads and head back to the clubhouse.  I proceeded to complete one hour of moving activities at a very controlled rate. This  consisted of 10 minutes on the bike, 15 minutes on the treadmill, 5 minutes doing an arm weight  series, 20 minutes swimming in the pool and 10 minutes running in the pool.  All of this was very controlled and very slow.  When I arrived home I felt pretty used up but happy that all of my joints and muscles had been in motion.   I guess I will have to designate this as another recovery day where I didn’t do any damage to my body.  But the strangest thing of all was that in each of these efforts biking, running on the treadmill , and swimming I could feel that soreness in my    hamstrings,   very very unusual event.  Then it occurred to me that I may have been experiencing RDOMS!  (Really Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness )  Ha Ha .    15 x 25 strides at Max Speed = almost 400 strides.  @ 4ft per stride that is almost 1/4 mile at Max Speed.   That = tight hamstrings!

I must remember to watch for those PIZ moments.

There will be an update tomorrow.

STATS

I-Mad  – 3.5

a.m. HR –  55BPM

Sleep – 9 hours

Weight  – 153#

Workout – 1hr of movement @ FSML Clubhouse