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The single dog messing up my run route at the start of the week has now become a roaming pack of three :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Last weekend while I was running joburg north city marathon I felt a tear in my hamstring at about 39km, I decided to walk the rest and got to the end but something wasn't right.

The next day my leg was on fire,I could barley walk but thought I would give it some rest by Wednesday it was still stuffed so went to the doc.

Looks like I have torn my hamstring and I can't run for a minimum of 2 months. I'm a bit frustrated but Comrades will have to wait for next year and I have lots of rehabilitation to do.
 
Scary_Turtle said:
Last weekend while I was running joburg north city marathon I felt a tear in my hamstring at about 39km, I decided to walk the rest and got to the end but something wasn't right.

The next day my leg was on fire,I could barley walk but thought I would give it some rest by Wednesday it was still stuffed so went to the doc.

Looks like I have torn my hamstring and I can't run for a minimum of 2 months. I'm a bit frustrated but Comrades will have to wait for next year and I have lots of rehabilitation to do.
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Sorry to hear that. Torn hammy is always a bummer.
What do think might've caused it?

I always thought torn mean you pulled it but when you look at the action of slow running the hams don't really extend fully unless you're doing full sprints.
 
wise_guy said:
Sorry to hear that. Torn hammy is always a bummer.
What do think might've caused it?

I always thought torn mean you pulled it but when you look at the action of slow running the hams don't really extend fully unless you're doing full sprints.
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I don't know I have never had one issue with my hammy it's always hips or shin splints. I just felt this horrible pain.

Doc says it's torn but I have to do an mri on wednessday to see the full extent of the damage.
 
Scary_Turtle said:
Last weekend while I was running joburg north city marathon I felt a tear in my hamstring at about 39km, I decided to walk the rest and got to the end but something wasn't right.

The next day my leg was on fire,I could barley walk but thought I would give it some rest by Wednesday it was still stuffed so went to the doc.

Looks like I have torn my hamstring and I can't run for a minimum of 2 months. I'm a bit frustrated but Comrades will have to wait for next year and I have lots of rehabilitation to do.
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Sorry to hear that man, especially as it's screwed you over for Comrades. But yeah, hammies need to be carefully looked after. I ripped mine in matric playing squash and more than 20 years later, I can still feel it when I stretch.

Best of luck with the recovery.
 
I have been doing light strength training for the last 2 weeks after the hamstring.

Super excited I can start walking and cycling slowly this week because I'm starting to get fat.

Jeesh still 2 more months before I can even think about running......grrr
 
Cray said:
159 metres according to Garmin, 200m according to Strava.

Basically downhill for 1 km, uphill for 3km then down for 1km.
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Cool. Hoping to tackle it sometime in the next few weekends

With Ashburton closing it should motivate us to try some other ones for a change
 
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