Alright so I don’t really post on letsrun that much but on the outside part of the bottom hamstring I have some soreness. It’s been tight for a while and now it’s sore. It’s been sore for a couple days now. I had a bad cramp there a week ago two but I didn’t get the symptoms of soreness till 3 days ago. Did a track workout today with 0 pain like all my runs so far. It’s just one I squeeze it or massage it getting really deep into that it’s tender. Is this just some really bad tightness or a strain. As previously said I haven’t felt any pain running yet and I’ve been running fast such as 27 seconds per 200. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
if you can feel a tender spot you're being dense and it's just a matter of time
it's not the steady pace that gets a hammy, it's the sudden stop. or jump. or start. or cut. or oops i stepped off a curb wrong.
Exactly - both of my major hamstring tears were because of a quick cut to the left and then an attempt to sprint after catching a football and evading the defender (pathetic that this was a pickup touch game); the second was sprinting to catch a foul ball playing softball. Boom - my legs have never been the same since. My more recent muscle injuries have all come from trying to ignore the warning signs of cramps and tightness - so ignoring those signs is just a sure-fired way to turn a minor strain into a major tear and months on the injured list.
Same here. I stepped off a curb to quickly get out of the way of a kid who jumped out of her mother's stroller. Pain for 3 months, lingering issues for 7 months. Finally ok after a year.
The two I remember most over the last 30 years. About two months out from the SunTrust Marathon leaning down to put my granddaughter in the back car seat pulled or slightly tore hamstring lasted about 6 months kept trying to run through it.
A couple of years ago going to the track early on a Saturday morning thinking I was Superman and doing some hard 400's with out a proper warm up and on the last one I felt something pull, that one took 3 months to recover with plenty of walking and heat. That's my stories and I'm sticking to them.
I’m a distance runner though. I don’t do much cuts or turns. I can still run than probably
then you're arguing, not asking.
my experience if you tweaked something or had a bad cramp, just do upper body work a few days and it'll go away.
my personal experience if you actually do a pull it took a lengthy, like 2-3 month, idle, otherwise, some silly thing re-aggravates it. silly thing meaning pushing off to start a run, jerking to a stop at an intersection, stepping awkwardly off a curb, trip over a root on a trail, you get tired and push a little, etc. you are not literally running the same speed 24 hours.
i tried to come back fairly early and play soccer, and i had to restrain myself from sprints and cuts and such. just controlled get the ball pass the ball. had 2 goals in a men's league game including the winner. go to do a tiny little jump celebration on the winner, hammy seizes, have to drag myself over the endline and be subbed. end of season.
i buy that as it heals well you can go back to controlled straight line steady speed stuff, but if it's tender you're not there, and it'll be some sneaky or stupid or uncontrolled thing will set it off.
there is no point risking it because the downside risk is you become the old man who can't start to run across a grocery parking lot in a downpour without the hammy wanting to yank.