Wendy-I can’t believe you are already to another recovery week. You are really working hard and time is flying. Which workout will you sub for a run or will you just add it?
Jess—great that you are still feeling good after your run. It’s easy to ignore something like tight hips after a run until you first live through the consequences ---I was pretty unaware of my ITB and hip until it was too late. Now I am hyperaware of it (which is good for me.) Great job getting in ME, too!
Susan—Yay!! You got to run. I think that listening to your body is the way to go. Fter my ITB injury, I used the mailbox walk-run method. Down my street, I’d walk to one mailbox, the jog to the next, etc. It took me (and my creaky body) 3 months to rebuild mileage very safely and no speedwork for me during that time……It was during that whole recovery period that I discovered Cathe workouts – I think focusing on what you can “do” and sprinkling in running as your body allows makes a lot of sense
I’m not currently injured or in pain, but had an ITB problem 3 years ago and had PT. Judy recently had a new flare up of hip pain and that’s how this topic got going again with book ideas, etc. For me, my ITB-Hip-Low-Back-Hamstring area seems very interrelated. So if one of those are stiff, it’s a matter of time before the other kicks in.
Hi to the other Cheetahs checking in later today or this weekend:
Carole, Christine, Elaine, Thomasina ------->that covers California, I think, now go East...
Shelly C, Karen, Gayle, Laura, Kristi ------->heading east, now look up
and Shelley & Laurie ------> O Canada
have a great rest of the weekend. I hope to be back tomorrow or Monday.
-Barb
