Anatomy lessons

After recovering from food poisoning, I scheduled an appointment with an ART (Active Release Technique) practitioner.  It's weird and painful, moving and pushing range of motion through activated pressure points, but it felt good at the same time.  Since then, I've been sore but feeling like the muscles are less tight.

The appointment was interesting, because I got to feel exactly where each muscle was and how they work together.  Instead of the piriformis, which was not happy, it seems I strained the hamstring right where they connect up to the trunk.  And connected back muscles, causing sciatica.  A big mess, basically.

Waiting to see if the soreness subsides.  However, this is the first week I've been off ibuprofen and not icing as much.  Running in the water at Lake Nokomis has felt good at the time and after.  So there's finally a little light in the tunnel... 

If the lake didn't freeze over by November, I'd just stick to water running... But the winter thing has not completely abated.  We just get no x-country skiing snow...  Making cross training that much more difficult.  Gonna have to hope rehab is not too heinous.