Wednesday 21st April - The (ridiculous) injury

Did I pull a hamstring? ...twist my ankle? ...hurt my knees?

No, no, no. I managed to tear my upper abdominal muscles!! How ridiculous! Although it has turned out to be a rather practical injury for running purposes as I can't feel it while I run.

So how did this happen?

Corina and I went along again to the exercises with the Geneva Runners and I'd been feeling more than just a little sore after the exercises we did last Wednesday - I'd never had muscle pain that intense before, which surprised me a little -but I wasn't prepared for what happened next.

As Corina and I launched into our first "leap-frog" type jump of the evening, I felt an excruciating tearing sensation along near where my diaphragm is - I kid you not - I've never heard of that happening to anyone before either! Anyway after a good 10 mins of deep breathing until the nausea left, Corina (who had her own painful experience) and I decided to just stick to a light jog.

Funnily enough running doesn't hurt (thank goodness - what a lame reason that'd be not to be able to run!) but getting in and out of bed is near impossible. And when I try roll over in my sleep I wake myself up from the pain!!! And don't get me started on coughing and sneezing (in the height of hayfever season!) Oh, the pain! Yeah, go on, you can laugh. I have been ;-)