Fat and flabby January

[Charliecat5]

Post Script

On a hot and muggy night I have just followed my podiatrist's instructions and completed a warm up jaunt around the block before undertaking my first stretching session in accordance with his demands wishes, viz, that said stretching sessions be completed "twice per day following a proper warm up".

I have to tell you, an early morning 4 a.m. 5km run is easier and far less painful  to complete than this wretched stretching I have to do. But then, I guess that only vindicates what he was saying - my hamstrings and calf muscles are clearly and obviously woefully* inadequate and require "much" work.

I am sorry to say that during the prescribed stretching session Mrs MLCMM was completely unsympathetic to my screams of anguish. Doubtless RC readers will be rather less callous.

Please.


*As usual, multitudinous apologies to haters of the adverb. I seemingly can't help myself.

I visited queen Boudicca over Christmas (aka a masseur), who, during the course of my 'treatment', enquired about the kind of stretching I did, before and after a run.  When I stopped laughing, which was some feat given the pain she was inflicting on my calf muscles, I explained that proper runners don't stretch.  At this point she started laughing... which really didn't do anything to ease the torture she was now dishing out on my shoulder.  

You should warm up properly before a run, she said (which apparently doesn't mean just running slowly for a while) and do some stretches afterwards.  She then pointed me towards a website that has a good 10 minute routine for runners.

I crawled home and the next day loaded it up.  There was a very nice and quite scantily clad lady firing instructions from my iPad screen.  So I followed them... you would wouldn't you... she was nice and scantily... ...  Anyway, to cut a long and painful story short, I managed to pull a muscle in my shoulder doing those bloody stretches, which was agony for a few days.  I guess you need to do stretches before your stretches.