Muscle damage and rehabbing oneself

[Saab2000]

When I had my little crash this summer and broke my clavicle I also severely pulled or as likely as not tore my left hamstring. Walking was agonizing at first and even two weeks later I couldn't pretend I could outrun anyone because I couldn't 'run' by the slowest definition of that word. Attempting to throw one leg ahead of the other almost threw me to the ground. There was little to no ability to contract that left hamstring and when I would get out for the first rides I could feel my right one contracting with each pedal stroke but the left one felt like a marshmallow.

Fast forward 9 or 10 weeks and it's getting better, slowly. I can now 'run' about 100 meters before I almost cramp up in the left leg. Then I walk couple hundred and try it again. It's awkward and painful but it makes me smile. I'm in a hotel with a weight machine and today for the first time I tried some leg curls with zero weight. Just the weight of the weight carrier. I could barely lift it with my left leg. Right leg was as good as new.

So it's some light stretching and lying on the floor on my stomach doing left leg leg curls with no more weight than a running shoe. Gotta start somewhere. Baby steps. It's nothing heroic and I don't mean it to sound that way but it puts a smile on my face. I want to be able to run again.

Just my thought of the day.

[Too Tall]

Go man go.
Skip rope. Open field walking dips. Low box jumps. etc. etc. Engage the fr. and back of your leg together to expose the weakness and work out steady and low level LONG enough to exhaust the weak ones. You are a very experienced athlete and know how this works.