Boot Camp Blues

Boot Camp Day 8. Things have taken a turn for the worse.

I showed up a couple of minutes late for my Thursday night class, thereby missing the stretching segment of the class. Big mistake. While doing hamstring curls with “power bands” wrapped around my ankles, I felt something go terribly wrong. My hamstring did not necessarily snap or pop, but it tightened up and started to get hot. Not willing to admit that I was hurt, I went on to run some laps and then run the stairs with my group. Bigger mistake. By the time I was willing to stop, I was in some doubt about whether I was going to be able to walk out on my own two feet. I got the kids rounded up and hobbled home.

Things did not get better for me at this point. I took a hot bath and tried to stretch out my legs. By this time, both of my hamstrings hurt and my left knee was throbbing. I rummaged through the medicine cabinet and found some Icy Hot. Although I have smelled the stuff on Dobie before, I had never actually used it myself. I skipped reading the directions and went straight to application. Biggest mistake of all. I got too big of a blob in my hand so I just started rubbing it in all over my legs. In a few seconds it started to do what it is supposed to do and it got hot. Like 9000 degrees hot. That’s when I realized that I inadvertently got a little too close to my “hoo-haw” and that it was on fire. Preoccupied by my incenerating nethers, I didn't think it through and got back in the tub to scrub some of the hot lava off before my hoo-haw completely melted off. However, the hot water in the tub only exacerbated the thermal effects of the Icy Hot and the heat level to my tra-la-la reached Nuclear. Too embarrassed to ask Dobie to help me, (I mean seriously what was he going to do) I crawled into bed and prayed that I would soon pass out.

About twenty minutes later, everything returned to normal and I just went to sleep. Today, I am still in a substantial amount of pain but mostly I am just ticked. I am trying so hard to lose weight and I really don’t need to be hobbled right now. It takes a lot for me to get in an exercise frame of mind and I was there. Now, I am afraid that I will have to quit. Boo.