u/yanyanbun — reddlx

Yo. My events are 110mH and 100m.

I think I might have injured myself, but I'm not sure how. I had a meet earlier this week, and a few days before that was my first track practice on a real track. I was a bit sore after but was fine. When I came home, I was hyped and decided to hurdle for a while since I didn't get to hurdle at the track. I didn't injure or hit myself, but I was sore as per usually after practice and hurdling made me even more sore. Still, I thought I was chill.

Then I had my meet, and I did well. I won in my events but it was during the 110mH that I started to feel discomfort or sum in my right hamstring (I hurdle with my right leg) but it wasn't horrible. Then I had the 100m. However, midway through the 100, I started to feel it again but worse. When I pushed off the ground with my right foot and then raised my leg past a certain height to get my knee up, it hurt. Had to slow down. Since then, hurts to bend my right leg or lift it straight past a certain height. I can walk on it, just mildly uncomfortable if i fully extend when I walk. My other leg is sore too but I can tell that's just normal meet kind of sore.

I've tried putting it up, using heat (may or may not have burned myself with a hotpack), and stretching.

Has anyone else experienced this? I stretched before my races, did what I normally do. I've never injured myself like this before doing track. Is it because I overdid it by trying to hurdle after my first practice when i was already sore?

For context, I'm like five foot 8 and a half. I've always been athletic and faster than most people my age. Lean. And most importantly, I'm not very injury-prone. Never broken anything in my life, though maybe I've had a strain or too from sports in the distant past.

Advice?