I have been having a great last few running weeks of very consistent training, and even steadily building up the long runs with hopes that I might actually log one over 20 before my next marathon. Then last night in agility class, disaster struck. I was running Eddy on leash (not to go into too many details, but he is in that awful teenage stage and I have to curtail his "freedom" sometimes) and I somehow tripped over my own feet and fell down. I can't really blame Eddy, except for the fact that if I did not have dogs, I would not run agility!
I stumbled a bit before finally falling, resulting in a nasty pull to some muscle deep in my left buttocks. The glueal? The piriformis? One of those guys. That's the worst of it. The other injuries were intitially worrisome: bruises and abrasions to my right ("good") knee, large bruise on right upper arm just above the elbow, another bruise on the side of my left hip. But it's that butt pull that's gonna hold me back just when I was really ready to ramp up my training.
So, instead of the long run I had planned for this week, I just did a very slow and deliberately easy 4 miler on the treadmill. Had to do something or else I'd be thinking about plastic bags and duct tape again. Also took two Aleve after, which seemed to help a lot after my long run last week but doesn't seem to be doing the trick today.
I am hoping that if I scale back a bit and just do short runs this week, maybe the recovery will go fast and I can come back ready to go longer next week. It helps that I don't have any agility this weekend. Staying home from the dog training club tonight so I don't aggravate things any more. Running around on that thinly covered concrete is really hard on my old body.
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