Beginning to Run Thread

[Catrin]

Tried some trail running today. Between walking/running I covered 1.56 miles in 23:54 minutes...which is really bad but I wasn't doing it for time. I had a deep tissue massage a few hours before and I wasn't about to push things. Hamstring complained at first but it got over it as I started (after warming up) by walking/running 1 minute each. Then my running split gradually increased. But THEN my cranky knee got, well, cranky. It is prone to do that if I've not run for awhile.

During the deep tissue massage she found some adhesions in my foot and found a quite tight IT Band - she said my hammie wasn't all that tight. So back to work on foot, calf, and IT Band. I know what to do and I've been backing off on that since I've not been running much lately. There at the end my knee wasn't complaining near as much so am not really concerned about it - it was just complaining because it was having to do a little work.

The deep tissue massage was very interesting, never had one before. She had a tool to work on adhesions with and what she found in my shoulder wasn't unexpected. What WAS unexpected was how effective she was with some of my neck stiffness/soreness. She was very, very careful with my neck but the results were nothing short of amazing. Pity I can't afford to see her a couple times a month! Now I am off to pour some Epsom salts into a hot bath :-)