During 15 years of inline speedkskating, among the injuries suffered, groin pulls were not an issue. The movement of skating does a great job of strengthening the adductor and abductor muscles with the power stroke and recovery and reload. Over the last year, my time in the boots has gone way down. Instead I have been doing all the things I write about in this blog. So, while I strengthened the rest of the body, I think the adducters didn’t get a whole lot of work and may have atrophied. Last year I injured both "ddies" so I have two groin injuries, one from training, the other from trying to catch my disobedient teenaged Chow pup. They are healing slower than I would like,  but have not hindered my workouts all that much, that is, until I resumed skating. Is that irony or what?

After sufficiently warming up and firing up the adductors, it was time to hit the hills of Back Bay in Newport Beach, from home, two blocks away. My 55 minute workout today consisted of hill repeats on the Irvine, Eastbluff and Lower Back Bay hills. Here are some pictures of those hills. Unlike most of the hill repeats I do here, in deference to my delicate groin, I kept the workout aerobic…and fun! While I did not attack the uphills, I did going down. These hills are not that long or steep, but if you hit them hard, you will get worked! It also gave me a great opportunity to work on my technique, which is in need of much work if I intend to do any races later this year. I am thinking of doing two or three, depending on, again, the groin and the level of training on skates I can put in. In the meantime, I can have some fun, work on technique and time in the Bonts.

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