Jan, the Pain Queen

Well, I finally found the time to get with Jan to work on my hamstring and hip (Jan is a deep muscle / active massage therapist). It's been a few years since I went to Jan. She is a miracle worker really, and she will give deep active massage on a tight muscle until you say "Uncle!". She is pretty good at getting you talking while she is working to take your mind off of things, but at a point I was like "I can't talk any more, this hurts too much".

So I'm feeling bruised and sore right now, but I know it's best in the long run.

She also told me the things I need to work on so that I don't have these problems. Basically I was stretching too much and not doing enough strength training. I blame the basement flood for not building enough strength this winter before the long bike rides and runs kicked in. I don't need to do strenuous training, just enough to activate the less muscles so I don't have such an imbalance. She gave me some good ball exercises to do to supplement my weight training.

Didn't get a chance to swim today as planned, but did do 4x1mile on the treadmill last night at 6 min pace, 5:50 pace; 5:45 pace; 5:40 pace; 5:40 pace. It was a good muscular endurance session. A bit close the the race, but I'm not doing too much more this week, so plenty of time to recover.

I really need to clean up my bike and put my race wheels on for the weekend and get a practice ride in to make sure everything is setup right. Busy, Busy!