Thanks Mags, Myrtle and Twink, I’m afraid it’s not looking good for tomorrows run.
The offending buttock was giving me some grief yesterday after the run and I think running again on it will just provoke it further. Apart from the buttock though my quads were so stiff this morning telling me that it’s just what they needed. It’s been a long time since I have felt stiffness in my muscles following exercise.
I intend to walk round my five mile route in the morning and see how it goes but it’s a rest day today - well, sort of - Going to the cinema at Meadowhall to watch Fantastic Beasts, so at least I’ll get something nice to eat. Mind you though, saying that, I tipped the scales at eleven stone on Saturday, that’s half a stone heavier than I normally am so I’d better be careful what I choose for lunch…Frank Cannon springs to mind…
ELEVEN stone… if only Bob. This Bob grossed up to 18 and a half stone 3 years ago. My weight today is less FOUR stone & going down. You never know I might take up running when I reach 11 stone, but I suspect that friends & family will think I’m ill. On the bright side I am the perfect height for person of 10 foot high.
Although I managed a few short bursts of running on this mornings five miler it fell well below the criteria to be entered into the running log and boost my years total.
The frost was keen and the going was good and hard, all the puddles had a layer of ice and it would have been perfect for a swift invigorating run but unfortunately it would have to be walk today. I could feel my left buttock aching as soon as I set off but it did subside as I warmed up. I usually take an apple with me and consume it on the first mile when it’s just going to be a walk, but by the time I was down to the cog my hands were freezing and I was so glad to be able to put my gloves back on.
After the apple I jogged for a while to get warm, the muscles didn’t seem to get any worse but not wanting to push too hard I walked it round to the main road. Faces stared out of the windows of queueing vehicles waiting to take their place on the roundabout, and the occasional ‘Ace of Base’ thumping out a rhythm, how can they listen to music that loud.
To save face I had to jog mostly past the queueing traffic, I didn’t want to look like a weirdo walking past in a pair of shorts on a sub zero freezing frosty morning. So I jogged past them all and turned off down the quiet road that leads to the lane and walked.
As the muscles tightened their grip running became less frequent until at four miles running ran out! By this time my left leg had become too stiff to lift so I shuffled the last mile home. Despite the setback, it was still good to be out…
We did manage to get to the cinema yesterday and enjoyed watching ‘Fantastic Beasts’ in 3D, it turns out it was more believable than ‘Arrival’ the movie we saw last week. I couldn’t get over the amount of food that some people brought into the cinema, gynormous buckets of popcorn and big plates full of Nacho’s and all washed down with two litres of Coca Cola. It made my Mars Bar and Licorice Allsorts look like healthy food…
A large geezer I knew, during a hot spell in the mid 90s said “God it is hot, it is so sweaty in my underpants, I’ve got a fat belly, but a models arse”, top that Bard.
I seem to be living in a sort of ‘Groundhog Day’ with every day the same. I didn’t leave the house yesterday, Mrs Fox went out with a friend for lunch and returned at around five just in time for me to cook her some dinner.
I’ve made a huge mistake…On Wednesday I really needed to go out early in the morning for a Walk/Jog, It’s usually a rest day and especially so since my buttock is playing up (It needs a day to settle down after exercise) I could feel an ache right from the word go, but I carried on round a three mile course and by the time I got home I could hardly walk.
So after Ibuprofen and massage I have decided to give it complete rest until Sunday, but If it still hurts I will postpone walking and jogging indefinitely. Talking to Mrs Fox is like trying to pick my way through a bramble bush in the nude, she has got her awkward head on at the moment.
So days come and go and I am unable to burn off all of my excess energy, I try to find interesting stuff to do but nothing seems to fill the void. Even Over 50s Forum has gone quiet and I keep habitually searching the topics for something exciting and inspiring…
As you can see I’m on a right downer so another visit to the cinema at Meadowhall today with some friends to watch ‘Allied’ and hope I can shake off this negativity. At least I might be able to find something nice to eat that I haven’t had to cook myself.
Mrs Fox has just scowled at me round the corner as she disappears into the bathroom, it’ll be the same old moan “Waters not very hot!” Well it wouldn’t be would it while I’m washing up my breakfast pots and nicking all the hot water…
No Ibuprofen this morning because I don’t like taking it unless I have to and I can feel a tightness in my lower back as I’m writing this so it looks like I’m in for the long haul with this injury, the weather outside is perfect for a long walk or a run, not a breath of wind and it’s even quite mild, but I’m sat here on the subs bench feeling sorry for myself.
Better make a move before Mrs Fox gets out of the shower and fires a hail of abuse at me about wasting my time on the internet, I wish I could climb inside the screen where there would be no such thing as injury and nagging and you could run as far and as fast as you want in that surreal cyber world of magic…
Sorry to have bored you with all my baggage, I just needed to get it off my chest because Mrs Fox is no help at all…
Oh Bob I have real sympathy for you. Running was your great joy so, when you ran, Mrs Fox’s complaints would have had little effect on you, but whilst you are feeling so down I suspect that any little thing will easily upset you.
If the pain from your injury is not improving, go and speak to your doctor… he may be able to help or, at least offer you some advice on how long it may continue.Don’t give up on continuing your running yet, when the weather improves you may be able to get back to it.
One thing I will say though, is that if we all live to our 90’s, we will all have to give up some activities that we enjoy, so for the time being, why not search for another hobby that you can do from a sitting down position… you may find it useful when you get a bit older.
Always remember that you can’t get rid of us, so if you are finding our conversation a bit boring, try to start a new thread that will excite both us and yourself.
Hi Bob - try running backwards that uses the muscles in different ways - just get some wing mirrors too!!
There was a young runner called Robert
Who thought he could run like a Hobbit
But as he waddled along his leg lost their ‘strong’
And now he’s confined to his cottage?
go and see a good sports physio ya penny pinchin pensioner!
Hello Young Man,sometimes We have to listen to Our bodies telling Us ‘enough is enough’…so maybe time for You to take up another hobby like erm…knitting/chess/jigsaw puzzles/ etc’…:-p…just kidding…Hope You’re feeling Your old self soon…kof kof, x
Aw Guys, where do I start…
Twink, with all due respect, all through my running career I have suffered from this injury every now and then. I have spent hundreds of pounds visiting physio’s, Doctors, Chiropractors, Osteopaths and Magicians…Well alright then, perhaps not magicians. So I have come to know this type of injury very well and how long it will take to dissipate. I am my own worst enemy and if I would just cease running it would probably be gone in a couple of months. Frustration sends me out on the road before it’s properly healed and this only prolongs the injury.
I am too young to give up running just yet and I have no doubt that I will come back at some point. I have always been a bit of a loner and never had a problem finding something to occupy my time, over the last few years the forum has occupied a big part of my life. I will never be bored conversing with you and the other forum users Twink. The forum gives me a purpose in life now that I am retired and I look for things that might be interesting to write about. So if anything, it’s me that bores you…I do go on a bit.
Gumbud, the only person who has been value for money in the past was an alternative medicine practitioner who used acupuncture and massage and after just two days I had made a full recovery. I must point out though, that it was after six weeks of pain and no running so it was probably on it’s way out anyway. Nice poem by the way!
May, I have got some good hobbies waiting in the wings for the inevitable, but not yet…Loads of miles in me yet…hills always look worse from the bottom…I’ll soon be on the up and looking down…Thanks for the support…
Thanks Mags, It’s not just running that has hit a rocky patch, Mrs Fox and me haven’t been seeing eye to eye just lately (even before my injury) so I think if she gave me a massage it would be with a hot iron…We’re not that close these days.:-(:-(
well OGF.me mucker,me mate, me buddy, my utmost commiserations every man needs a hobby and an understanding wife. but you do have the cure in your own hands and are just being a fool to yaself - I watch sport regularly in OZ and our sportsmen and women but mainly men are suffering injuries and being given time off by managers and coaches and under the guidance of physios - do yaself a service mate.
and while ya at it I would get a full examination of your musculater and soft tissue conditions - do you want to finish up with a zimmer frame -come on mon - break a leg!!
Ok Bob, let me say I have always been a bit if an amateur psychologist, and it sounds like your problems are coming from your head, rather than your body… so here are some harsh facts!
If you have suffered this injury on previous occasions and stopping running will help, then you have nobody to blame but yourself! I don’t often agree with gumbud but I do on this occasion!
Your frustration tells me that you are bored with your life, and running is the only way to deal with it, but your posts on this forum tell me that you are an intelligent man…so use that intelligence to find a way to entertain yourself till you can get back to pounding the streets.
Your relationship with Mrs Fox is a personal thing, so I can’t comment, but I believe that there are ways of dealing with problems if you both want to.
You tell us a lot about your life on Bob’s Bits, and I seriously doubt that anybody who reads them is bored. It is a bit like being allowed to read somebody’s diary… and believe me, we are all nosy enough to find that
interesting.
I spend a lot of time on my own, but the only thing I miss out on is having somebody to discuss important decision making with. I don’t suffer fools gladly, but I will happily chat to somebody who has a useful brain, so if you get really bored and need to pass an hour or two, during the day, just send me a note (via PM) and I will let you have my Skype address.
Titania lavishes Bottom with her affection, twiddling his cheeks and kissing his large donkey ears.
Bottom still doesn’t know his head has been transformed into that of an ass.
He calls for Peaseblossom to scratch his head and for Cobweb to go kill him a bee and bring back its honey.
Bottom announces he should go to the barber because he’s feeling kind of hairy, and when he’s hairy, he feels itchy all over.
you’re not an amateur psychologist ya a bloody psycopath - double bewarenesses OGF. I am happy to talk to ya OGF too but I do couples therapy so you and Mrs Fox on skype will be fine - wouldn’t want to see you locked in a cellar!
