Pimp Down!!

Why do I hurt more the second day after a long run, than the first. I always look forward to my run after a day off. I expect my muscles to be rejuvinated and refreshed and I look for my speed and endurance to suprise me. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case.

Yesterday, I commented that my legs were a little sore and felt worse in my daily walking around than they had the day before. Nonetheless, I ventured out in attempts of a 4.5 mile run. Jogging along on the treadmill I knew it was coming before it hit me. I got that eery feeling anyone that's ever had a muscle cramp gets right before your muscle contracts and locks up. The feeling where you think, "maybe if I don't move at all it won"t happen." And it always does. Right leg locked up something bad wrong. Tried to strattle the treadmill to keep from being thrown into the stationary bikes. Couldn't quite get the right leg of the belt, causing the force of my wickd 7:45 pace to spin my body around, butting both legs on one side of the emergency landing zone of the treadmill.

As I drew moderate attention from guy next to me I thought I could either shout in pain, scaring anyone to laugh at me due to the unbelievable agony I was suffering , or laugh it off. I chose the latter, unfortunately the pain I was in, made it come out as one of those crying laughs, like "stop tickleing me I am about to pee. Ooooh wait now I am peeing but still laughing."

That said, I only made it about 2.5 miles yesterday, but as I sit typing now, I am preparing to hit it again. Lesson learned, must improve my diet and fluid intake. I have been eating trash since this process started. It's like trying to hit 105 in your explorer that you haven't changed the oil in in about 9 months, just not a good idea.

Expect a video similar to this from my local snap fitness sometime soon...pay attention to the guy on the mill at about 50 second mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Zq3NLoubU