mr b's comeback

[Travs]

12 minutes on a track is hard stuff.

Any reps over a km and i generally find them mentally easier to do on the road.

[mr brightside]

12 minutes on a track is hard stuff.

Any reps over a km and i generally find them mentally easier to do on the road.

The second toe on my left foot finds it hard work.

[Marco]

To some degree, yes, but I wonder how much cycling out of the saddle uses the hamstring muscles. The mechanism of cycling is that you are pushing downwards; there is only a small amount of backward force, over a very small (compared to running) range of motion.

The main work the hamstrings do when running is slowing down the swing leg when it goes forward. It is the quads that do most of the work, pushing us up, and to a small extent, forward, when our stance foot is behind us. So we do not move forward because our hamstrings are contracting and trying to move our stance leg backwards.

Hamstrings certainly get a workout at fast pace. When i first started doing track sessions it used to take days for my hamstrings to recover.

When I switched from club cycling to club running, in my late twenties, I had a good aerobic system and decent quads. I quickly found, however, that I had very poor hamstrings and I was constantly injuring them. It took about two years of exercises to get through this.

[mr brightside]

No parkrun this morning, about 7.5m multi terrain around the route of the cookridge 10k. Golden acre park, strangely named as it's bigger than an acre and not very golden, had the usual stinking bins overflowing with poo bags, but I diverted my route through the rhodedendrons to get clear. Steady pace again, about 9mmp.

[mr brightside]

Not a great diagnosis from MS specialist last night concerning my posterior tibial problem. Too much swelling, very concerning levels of pain when palpated, and the muscle attachment is trying to tear itself off the bone...which is why the bone hurts a bit.

[Marco]

Not a great diagnosis from MS specialist last night concerning my posterior tibial problem. Too much swelling, very concerning levels of pain when palpated, and the muscle attachment is trying to tear itself off the bone...which is why the bone hurts a bit.

That's not what you want to hear. Where do you think you go from a diagnosis like this?

[Mike T]

Not a great diagnosis from MS specialist last night concerning my posterior tibial problem. Too much swelling, very concerning levels of pain when palpated, and the muscle attachment is trying to tear itself off the bone...which is why the bone hurts a bit.

Sorry to hear this - best wishes for recovery - does the injury have a specific name?

[mr brightside]

That's not what you want to hear. Where do you think you go from a diagnosis like this?

Rest, resistance band exercises, ice.

[mr brightside]

Sorry to hear this - best wishes for recovery - does the injury have a specific name?

Well, I did it way back at black combe by means of an eversion roll of the joint, probably when I got lost in the boulder field. The recovery process I've been given seems similar to one you may get for tendonitis, but he was specific about the bone attachment being the site of the damage. This is part of a pattern of such problems now, as when I did my hamstring at xmas that went on the pelvic attachment too.

[mr brightside]

Out for a few tarmac hill reps this evening, 1xlong 3xshort 1xlong. The times deteriorated, but that was be to expected, I haven't gone hard for 2wks now and my airway was stinging.