Some days are harder than others and they just don’t come together as easily as other days. To start with, I woke up with a really tight and sore right hip flexor. The day before, it was too cold outside to stretch on the patio so I came into the house. Then, I got busy doing other things and I forgot to stretch after a 6 mile run. Turns out, that was a big mistake…
The dang pinch in my lower back shifted sides. It is always on my right side and today it was in the same spot but on my left. However, it wasn’t to the degree of pain or annoyance to stop my run. Rather, it just made for a longer dynamic warm up and muscle activation. I’m carefully moving back to using my foam roller. I have learned my lesson (I hope) not to sit on…
Today’s training day almost didn’t happen. Did you know it’s possible to injure yourself with a foam roller? I didn’t. One week till marathon training Apparently, there’s a fairly prominent nerve that runs all throughout your lower body; weaving in and out of muscle groups. Turns out, with the right amount of pressure, time and placement it’s possible to really tick off this nerve which tends to connect to other nerves further away from the…