Training Log Archive: Wyatt

A little heat/stretch/ice (2x??), ~3-4 hr of walking/standing (Gatorland), leg only a little bit sore!

Following AJ & Evalin on White.

I couldn't walk fast enough to keep up with AJ & Evalin, so I jogged a few steps here and there - no real issues with that.

Only did a little stretching today, and lots of driving (Pine Mtn., GA to Orlando, FL)

Event: GEORGIA NAVIGATOR CUP
 

Walked ~90 minutes with the kids on Brown (1 & 2). Actually a little confused near 2 despite the really slow pace - probably in part due to the really slow pace. AJ walked the whole time, I carried Oriana (usually on my shoulders) ~3/4 of the way. Stretched once in the middle.

Late PM: My left glute is pretty good. A little sore tonight, but no worse than any day recently. I think the stretching is helping.

2x heat/stretch/ice

Travel on a plane. Only a little stretching, no heat/ice.

Upset the L-Ischeal Tubercle doing a dance-step game on an Xbox at Kamy's house in Atlanta. It wasn't too bad but definitely inflamed within minutes - apparently quelled okay by a little stretching.

Walking with Oriana, and some snow shovelling as we cleared paths through the last few large piles blocking the sidewalk loop. The snow shovelling was the only moderate exercise. The walking was quite slow.

Despite the light exercise of the past few days, I'm sitting on one side of my butt, due to inflamation on the other side. Odd. I did some very light hamstring (leg only) isometric strength last night, 5x5 seconds only - perhaps that's now bad. This is not good. It takes less and less effort to upset the leg... Although it's not majorly upset - still, it doesn't seem to have improved it's tolerance of even very light rehab since 1/24...

Saw Doc. Hopper today. After presented an updated summary, etc. he said I probably have tendonopathy and possibly accompanying bursitis at the ischeal tuberoscity. The main source of the problem is likely the tendonopathy.

I asked several questions, including "if this was my full-time job, what would I do?"

As far as diagnosis, the only tests left (e.g. a bone scan) would rule out rare things - there is no test to directly confirm the tendonopathy (beyond the ultrasound, which confirmed there are no major tears.)

As far as what to do?
- Heat, stretch, ice, several times a day. Even hourly if it was my full time job.
- PT could do ionotphoresis - might help, but it is a deep tendon so it might not.
- PT could do deep tissue massage i.e. the painful, break-the-scar-tissue kind.

- NSAIDs are fine to control pain, but don't directly aid in recovery.

- Pain - he thinks the path to fastest recovery of full competition isn't especially pain free. It shouldn't be really bad, but having the ischeal tuberoscity be more inflammed than it is now, due to the exercise and work to re-strengthen the area, may just be part of the fastest healing process. Ouch, but if it'll end up with me running sooner.

Since noon, I did 3 sets ~5+ minutes heat, ~5 minutes hamstring stretching, ~5+ minutes ice

Certainly not hourly, but not bad. Unfortunately, tomorrow is plane travel, followed by hotels, etc., so the heat/ice will be challenging.

Lazy, sore, dehydrated, full, and wondering whether squeezing the water buoy between by legs is good or bad for me. If my injury was only in the hamstring muscle belly, I'd think it's fine, but since the main area of soreness over the last month has been near the left ischial tuberosity, I wonder if squeezing the water buoy may be hurting? Next week I won't swim at all so we'll see what happens.. I'll be doing more walking, and less sitting at work, as I'll be watching kids at A-events - not running :(, and some Disneyworld - where I at least think I'll be able to walk all day okay... which is better than ~3-weeks ago.

As far as the swim goes, my arms were fairly sore - didn't really warm up until ~500+m into the swim, and I ate right before, and was dehydrated a bit, so it wasn't a great workout.

Left ischial tuberosity burning mildly most of the day. Still mild, but more annoying than the last few days today. It even made sitting still somewhat difficult for the first time in a while (although I didn't have to sit on one side of my butt only, like I did a few weeks back.) And yesterday was probably the best it had been in a while. This 're-injury' (light compared to others) really started yesterday late evening where it felt better with ice, but the burn came back minutes after removing the ice pack.

I need to write up another summary to take to the doc' tomorrow.

C • ischial tuberosity... 4

30 minutes of walking during an hour of walking and trail blazing. There is now a new entrance from the Condo's to the trail to the park that doesn't go quite a much into anyone's 'backyard'.