week 1 sore hammy

Saturday update;
now I have some sort of severe gastro bug I think so this weekend is over as far as running goes...

Thursday 24th July 2008 late PM; Mini-Duathlon; 10min ride on exercise bike HR-126, 5 min break, then 11min 11 secs 2km run (Hull Park course) HR 144...

Took it very easy as hammy was a little sore...maybe shouldnt have gone at all...
Its been a little bit touchy on and off for a few months now, although I had no problems at all during the Perth Marathon...

Tried out the new cardio CD I just got from Soundmass for the ride...Each techno track has a BPM (beats per minute) rating listed they are all between 128-144 bpm, and its NSOUL,Scott Blackwell stuff so thats always good...The music was quite decent Techno, although the company name sounds a bit "milk from a christian cow ish"(I have "The Sanctified Glory Mountain Revival Family" Hahaha *LOL* song
"Guilty by Association" on a cover album CD by mostly metal bands, its called "I predict a Clone"...) , I mean calling a company "faithfullyfit.com"!, and "Yo-Gal"!!!(to avoid the spiritual problems/baggage associated with Yoga, which is a noble aim I must admit...), hahaha *LOL* Still funny though... Could be worse I spose, and glad they are doing what they are...its a market that needs to be reached......Also got a Mortification compilation cassette tape for about $3!!! Has Scrolls of Megilloth etc...another Melbourne musicician; Paul Colman Trio CD for $10, Lightning Strikes Twice again(Retroactive records compilation includes Jimmy P Browns (Deliverance) sidebands Jupiter VI and Fearful Symmetry, an X-Sinner track and lots of classic christian metal that only a few have heard of),also Im feeling Moshtastic! about the Deliverance; Intense Live series, some of the standout tracks; "The Call"!!!,"Stay of Execution" etc...Also got EDL,Whitecross!!!(nineteeneightyseven),Tamplin/Shout,a Mortification sticker, and so on... Soundmass had a sale on...so all up not bad for $80 altogether...Target had a sale on yesterday too, so spent some time with my wife trying to get something good for Jacobs first birthday next week...

Well as I type this I am icepacking my hamstring, and hoping that the demise of Nathan Deakes (pulled out of Beijing Olympics due to persistent hamstring issue, when a gold medal chance for 50km walk), and Nathan Buckley (ex collingwood football captain who retired after battling hamstring problems for a long while), is not going to be my story this year...Sure thats a bit paranoid and negative, but thats partly what a blog is for isn't it, to type those worries away, until they come back another day, and in so doing with the help of God, and often through the help of other bloggers, rise above normal unhappiness to see ways forward, and hope for the future. That said I think when "injury: an athletes worst nightmare"

(a quote I picked up from one of those very melodramatic USA NBA basketball commentators, from one of my brothers old basketball videos which he left behind when he moved to USA to play college basketball, and now coaches, has a family there)

rears its ugly head, its easy to think this is the end... Someday it maybe too, but in the meantime, as long as one can, one must do what one can to combat the inevitable 2nd law of thermodynamics, ie. entropy (decay) increases, (theres my "mad"? scientist side coming out) or as Romans 8:21 puts it "creation is in bondage to decay", until the return of the Christ...to make all things new...

I'm pretty snowed under with work issues (50-60 hours a week of it), trash(acid) head at callcentre job (hope he drops out or stops being a trash head, cos it would make my life and everyone else at work a lot easier), and rain mucking up my machine with the meter reading...Also have some wrist soreness (icepacking that now too)...
Hammy is main concern just now, it gets sore when I am sitting down doing callcentre job sometimes, and Deakes had same problem when he was sitting down studying...

So what does one do, one prays, trys to take positive steps to avoid or treat the problems, and find ways forward...One of the things I have noticed with my meter reading and a lot of things, is that you put in the hard slog and it feels like you are going nowhere, and then after a good nights sleep you come back go again and before you know it you have achieved something...its those times, where not much seems to be happening, that you need to persist and not "drop you bundle" as my old racewalking coach used to say...I heard he is still cranking it up out on the roads at 80 or 81 years of age now, have to try visit/phone him sometime...

I think I may have to go visit a Dr so I can go see a physio soon if the hammy doesnt come good soon, its been sore too many times in the last week or so especially...
But then again the same thing happened about a month ago and it came good, so a bit of icepacking may be all I need...

I like the sound of Nathans Stirling Ridge Assualt idea...I belatedly (2 years later!)got our photos (from our half ridgewalk for my bucks weekend) online recently they are HERE

So with the Melbourne Marathon less than 12 weeks away, I am keen to try and get something going again this week...so see how things feel in the next day or so, hopefully I will be good to go this weekend at some point, but if the hammy continues to flare up I will have to wait until it settles, or until I can afford to see a physio...my meter reading work should keep me primed to get back into it in any case...
I feel better mentally already now that I have typed out my mental baggage...
Hopefully can start the charge towards Melbourne on 12th October in earnest soon...



MELBOURNE 42k (12/10/08) ASSAULT; WEEK 1 (21/07/08-27/07/08);
Volume; 21min + 23hrs MR work. Sessions;1 +MR
Best RHR; 50 bpm Sleep; 51 hrs (7.35hrs per night) *42
OD/LSD; NIL
Races/Time trials/LFD; NIL
Reps sessions;NIL
5-point strategy measures;
1-long run/ride etc done?-No failed
2-2x reps/race/timetrial sessions done?-No failed
3-Abs done?- No failed
4-cycling done-yes achieved.
5-swim done?-No failed

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