Tuesday: Experiencing some mild tingling in my leg. Looks like sciatica - compression/irritation of the large sciatic nerve that runs from the back down the legs. Mostly like caused by overtraining/ramping up running miles too quickly ("Damnit, body, please try to keep up with me!").
At least this injury has a cool name - "ITBS" just sounds sad. (How can you take a condition seriously when it has "BS" in the name?)
Remedies: Need to be even more vigilant in my pre-and post-run stretching and lay off runnning for a week. So no running until this Sunday's Pioneer Power Sprint Tri (and that is just 3.3 miles so hopefully it will be okay). Swimming not possible - the pool at LA Fitness is closed for repairs.
Wednesday: Planned swim at lunch (called ahead - the whirlpool is still closed, but the pool has reopened - yay). Unfortunately, no dice - back-to-back conference calls scheduled. Tried to swim after work - didn't get off until almost 6:30 - too hungry :-P. Oh well, I needed another day off anyway.
Tomorrow (Thursday): Definitely going to go to spin class and swim. It's a "moral imperative"!
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2 comments:
Hey, don't worry about a day off on trainng.. you are way ahead of your mates.. :-)
I got a lot of great sciatica information from these sites:
http://www.sciatica-treatment.com
and
http://www.nervesciatic.com
Hope this helps!
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