Track and Field Blogs - Ryan Sheehan

It really sucks trying to run through an injury, especially one thats not even that serious its just one that limits you from training and running at your full potential. I have been battling this groin/hip adductor issue for some time now and just recently has it really flared up. I would say it would started back around last November when I ran the Chiba Ekiden Relay but even then it was just a faint feeling in my leg and nothing really serious. I didn't really think anything of it especially when I ran PR's in both the Half Marathon in December and 5k in Febuarary. One thing is for sure though is they always come up around the times when the races mean the most. I could feel my performances starting to decline around cross-country and the 8k Road Championships in New York and then it would get just slowly worse every week. These are the type of things that are the worse because you can see it in your regular runs and workouts that you just aren't quite right but nothing is seriously wrong, you are not limping off the track or have to walk on a run.

I thought if I just stayed on it with strength excercises and stretching I would still be able to get through a track 10k and hopefully be able get a time for the trials. But the old left leg had other ideas, it was just going to keep me limping along turning in average performances which lead into some really bad ones. So now I am on my 9th day of downtime and starting to feel alittle bit better after hitting the gym and chiropractor a lot. Hopefully when I start up on thursday it will be on the up and up and ready to go for Twin Cities this fall because that is all I will be looking at while I sit at home and watch the Trials on T.V. It sucks but you always have to be looking ahead and what is in front of you when things aren't going your way.

Last months mustache was Rolling Stone's 2007 Mustache of the year the lead singer of Gogol Bordello, Eugene Hütz.

Hopefully this works for this months, completely unrelated from the others but a pretty dirty stache.