Rabbit's epic healing thread ;-) (feel free to ignore)

[alpinerabbit]

Soooo...

after that first time of doing lunges, I had the most horrid DOMS (oh how sophisticated sounding!! sore muscles anyway) in my right rectus femoris (read outside quad) and both sides of my butt (gluteus medius).
So quite obviously, the rectus is the weak spot, overloading the other leg muscles. Looks like I had a reason for having all the trouble on the same leg. At least we're getting some results here.

I went running one time since, and had a twinge around the outside of the knee and nearly freaked about getting ITBS.
I also had sore, hot lumps in my right quad.

Another PT session, she finished off with stroking out the thigh after the exercise; the day after it really hurt down there and it was swollen - SHOCK! And cycling season approaching? If this kills my season I will be so pissed off at myself, so I'd rather give up the whole idea of triathlon, period, and stick to cycling. After all I also screwed up the shoulder so maybe this just isn't my sport? and so on and so forth ad nauseam...

By yesterday I was bored, way too cold for any biking, so I did my lunges and stretching and rolling in the morning. By lunch, bored out of my freaking mind, I did go for another run, I thought heck, even if this will be the last time I ever run.

8.5 K, took me over a freaking hour, but I was just peachy. Another bit of stretching afterwards.

This morning, nothing. No pain.

So I'm not giving up, but maybe reducing to 2 times a week but longer. Jeez, this is really getting epic.