Last week, about middle of the week, my left forearm came up lame. I don't know how else to say it.
I'm thinking, what have I done to my arm? Then it hit me. On that Monday we bought a used treadmill off of Marketplace. It was pretty big so I needed to use my little Harbor Freight trailer to pick it up. I keep the trailer at the back of my lot under a tarp. The ground was soft so I decided to manually pull the trailer to the front and hook it up to my vehicle. My lot has some grade to it, but I'd done this before (never again!). It takes a good pull to do it. I grab the tongue and safety chains and just tug. I didn't notice any particular muscle pull or strain during the process, but that had to be what did it.
Now my arm is killing me! It is just about as sore as any muscle soreness I have ever had. To top it off, yesterday I was working out on my bowflex and wanted to do a rowing exercise. Something pulled in that forearm! Ouch! No way was I going to be able to do that exercise.
Now to the real bummer. You know what that means when you sail a sail/oar boat... yea, that's right: you have to row. There is no way I can row a boat right now. Sometimes I have to really pull on those oars, especially if I have an opposing wind.
I have no idea how long it will take for this arm to heal. It is really, really sore!
We'll just have to be patient and see.
At least my legs are still good for now, so I'll keep training for that backpacking trip.