Good Taste

So that's 2 weeks of rest for my hamstring, and the book says 3 weeks.  I have been doing my exercises twice a day (almost), but this morning's session felt like it was the same as last week.  Very frustrating.  Maybe I'm being too pessimistic, but although I'm tempted to try it out to check out the progress, I need to rail that back and stick to the resting option.

Marketing has always been in interesting subject to me.  How do you sell something? ..and then, when it's old how do you keep them coming back for more?  This went through my head last night as I was selecting a freshly baked bread loaf for the next couple of days.  I could have gone for one of the many standard sliced options, but instead I was perusing the various 'baked in house' varieties.  Eventually I was drawn to an olive wholemeal version, based mainly on it's look.  I say 'mainly' because I had already filtered out the white, the 'wrong size' and the 'wrong shape'.  I needed it to last for 2 days (select: right size) for today's pack up lunch (select: right shape) and suit my palette.
To get that returning customer, the proof is in the eating of course and it wasn't bad although not as good as it looked, but that was only because it looked good - very good.

Scan Scam

I don't often make predictions, mainly because I hate being proved wrong - which will probably happen in most cases, but I predict that we will have some sort of body scanning device(s) that inform us of a variety of ailments without intrusive tests.  Don't know how long we will have to wait for this, but probably in the next 20 years, so I am looking forward to getting scanned and it telling me I'm almost dead.
It is also highly likely that this will turn out to be completely false, but as usual with predictions, there is an element of hope superimposed on the statement.

Talking of hope, I'm hoping for a positive outcome to my twice daily exercises to sort my hamstring out.  Its not getting worse, and I have managed to transfer next Saturday's 26 mile race entry to someone else, so no real financial impact.  Just psychological.

Sweat Free

I've never taken to regular, tedious stuff.  One job I had involved daily repetitive jobs that seemed to me to be simply a box ticking exercise, but if I had looked harder I would have realised that there was a reason for doing what I thought of as a waste of time.  I have since read/been told that some people are more cut out for repetitive stuff, whilst some are not.  This is a handy for me to justify my apparent laziness, although I'm not overly convinced that this is based on hard facts.

Anyway, this leads me into the daily exercise stuff I have set myself doing to overcome the sore hamstring issue.  It involves carrying out numerous exercises at least twice a day to strengthen certain muscles leading to a speedy recovery and less likely recurrence of the injury.  If these exercises were a bit more difficult to do, or more arduous leading to a sweaty conclusion it would make it easier, but no, they are easy to accomplish, sweat free stretchy sessions that don't feel like they are doing any good at all.  If it resulted in sweat and tears then I would relish them, but as it is I just can't be enthusiastic.

Let's hope the theory is correct.

Funny Routine.

As I write this, I can feel my hamstring bugging me which cannot possibly be a good thing.  I tried a few miles yesterday after a week's rest and it was almost as bad as the previous week, so rest by itself is obviously not the answer.  This means some sort of exercise/strengthening plan has to be put in place which is not my cup of tea at all.  It relies on regular sessions, something that I am not good at.
Anyway, I started last night with some easy 'lay on your back and do stuff' type of exercise and managed to remember to also do it this morning.   Ideally, it would be good to spend a bit of my lunch hour doing it, but not really practical unless I want to take up some office floor space and put up with verbal.
Let's hope it improves, but my 26 miler next Saturday is all but gone.

All The Best Laid Plans

I'm still in 2 minds over should I try a couple of miles or not to see what the hamstring feels like.  I set my alarm clock early today to get out before work, but switched it off - so much for that, and my plan B to go at lunch was scuppered by an over running meeting.  Plan C is to go after work, but it's Valentines day today so that might be seen as a 'problem' by 'er indoors.
What a quandary!

Hammy Hamstring

A sore hamstring has kept me away from my shorts since Thursday.  I'm hoping it's only sore rather than anything more serious, so a bit of reset seems sensible although my 26 mile off roader is less than 2 weeks ago so can't afford to take too long off.

I'll maybe try a bit of cycling this evening and see how that goes, and I'm trying to improve my glutes and quads to counter what I think is an over stretched hamstring, but not finding enough time to make it feel like it's doing any good.