A couple Easy days

Yesterday I did a golf cart path ride with my son in tow followed by 25 minutes of yoga and today I did another 45 minutes on the trails with my son attached to my mountain bike. Tomorrow it is back to some hard work!

Couple of hours of Thunder

Friday, I did a 30 minute spin in the morning followed by 25 minutes of core work. In the afternoon I did a 40 minute mountain bike ride on the trails behind my house. Saturday, I did the super hard 45 minute yoga interval. It consists of 6 Super hard 100 cadence 3 minute intervals with 1 minute rest between. By the time you hit the 6th one you are barely able to breathe or even keep your head up.

Sunday- 2 hours of mountain biking at camp thunder to get accustomed to my bike and do some climbing.

cautiously optimistic

This morning I did an hour on the trainer with some one legged drills and 2 five minute fartlek intervals. I got off the trainer a few times to stretch and make sure everything is going ok. I think my hamstrings are a little sore from the Physical therapy.

This afternoon I am going to do about 1:30 minute mountain bike ride including a 4,3,2, and 1 minute z4 interval. With a nice and easy warm-up. This will be my first time on a bike (other than my trainer) in just over a week.

So far so good

I did a 30 minute spin and some Physical therapy to build strength in the Hamstring this morning. Around noon I got another 30 minute massage on the hamstring and I feel ready for this afternoon's workout. Getting the hamstring nice and warm before I start a workout, I think, will be the key to getting it well enough to race hard this spring and summer. This afternoon I am going to do about 1 hour on the trainer doing pedalling drills and another 25 minutes of upper and lower body functional strength building exercises.

Maybe not 100% pain free but close

I am still getting some some painful muscle spasms and I am being super careful during any workouts. I woke up this morning and did a 30 min high cadence spin. This afternoon, I did another 30 minutes on the trainer and then did 20 minutes of Yoga. Tomorrow I have booked a 30 minute massage for my hamstring. I am slowly but surely getting back to normal. "The Drip" diet plan is working well. I am around 8% body fat and weighing in at 152. Tomorrow it is time for some One legged drills.

Hamsting is now Pain free

I read on a great internet site for hamstring injuries and athletes that once you have no pain in your hamstring that you can return to 75% of your max sprint. I am continuing to be very cautious. I currently have no pain but I am going to continue my compression, Epson salt, heat and stretching today. Tomorrow I am going to do a 30 minute easy spin. I feel good that I was able to avoid a much worse injury by allowing myself to heal.

80% better today

I would give my hamstring 8 out of 10. I did a 45 minute easy spin this morning followed by some stretching a Baking soda bath and then back into compression tights. This afternoon I did an hour spin followed by 25 minute recovery yoga some icy hot and back into compression. I did build a snowman for my 5 year old today and hope that I didn't hurt my hamstring pushing the large snow balls into place. My training program is giving me tomorrow off I might try and fit in another 30 minute massage. Tuesday morning, I will do a 30 minute easy spin and then another 20 minute easy spin before doing some yoga. I am hoping to be 95% by Wednesday so that I can do some one legged drills on the bike. I will need to be at 100% by Thursday for that workout.