2nd thoughts
Heading to the Y yesterday evening, the thought crossed my
mind that they might have deactivated my YMCA membership. After all nearly six
months had passed since my last visit. Quite possibly they could have assumed
that I was never coming back.
Surprising the card reader flashed from red to green, and
the turnstile clicked to allow me through.
Minutes later, my favorite stair master look just the same
as it did back March. May be a little more used but otherwise the same.
Climbing on and pressing start, my legs felt right at home going
up and down. Almost as if they had never been way. Not wanting to overdo it, I
would limit my workout to 30 minutes. No sense
in injuring my tender legs.
30 minutes passed faster than expected, and I moved on to the
weight machines.
Turned into a pretty good workout.
As I left the Y, I reflected back on the fact of not cross
training for the last six has had an effect on me, and it has not been a positive
one.
In years passed, cross training has always been my mainstay
while injured. I would always lower my running mileage but continued to make
heavy use of the machines. In some sense, this helped maintain my aerobic ability.
With my hamstring injury, I let the cross training slide, reduced my mileage,
and crossed my fingers this would speed the healing process. The thought process being less stress on the
hamstring would be better.
There are times when you have to go down a path just to see
where it goes and understand how it turns out. Knowing what I know now, I would
have stayed with the cross training. I believe I would have better off.
Is this the ugly part of any decision that we make. Do we
chose option A or option B? Only once we are down the path do we truly comprehend
the ramifications of our decisions.
Thought from the Stair Master,
The Cool Down Runner
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