Running

Pootsy said:
If you haven't run a Marathon @Dddddd are you even a runner?

Well of course you are but the box needs to be ticked. Its one hell of a commitment but then you can forever tell your mates about your achievement. HAHAHA

I never get tired of mentioning my one and only Belfast Marathon.
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I’ll get back to you in 2 weeks after I attempt my first (and probably only) one mate!
 


Frustration. At running club last night, the session was Temp Runs which is simply 2km reps done at a slightly quicker pace than normal with a 2 min recovery between reps. All going well until the 3rd rep when my calf muscle began to tighten. Stopped my session and walked back to the car. By the time I got home I was hobbling on the bugger.

Iced it, massaged it with a flat massage tool and rubbed in some biofreeze. Did the same again before getting into bed and this morning I've no side effects at all but I know I'll have to be careful with this for a week or two. With a batch of races coming up its really frustrating when you get a silly niggle like this.
 
Pootsy said:
Frustration. At running club last night, the session was Temp Runs which is simply 2km reps done at a slightly quicker pace than normal with a 2 min recovery between reps. All going well until the 3rd rep when my calf muscle began to tighten. Stopped my session and walked back to the car. By the time I got home I was hobbling on the bugger.

Iced it, massaged it with a flat massage tool and rubbed in some biofreeze. Did the same again before getting into bed and this morning I've no side effects at all but I know I'll have to be careful with this for a week or two. With a batch of races coming up its really frustrating when you get a silly niggle like this.
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Do you do much stretching before / after runs?
 
Pootsy said:
Frustration. At running club last night, the session was Temp Runs which is simply 2km reps done at a slightly quicker pace than normal with a 2 min recovery between reps. All going well until the 3rd rep when my calf muscle began to tighten. Stopped my session and walked back to the car. By the time I got home I was hobbling on the bugger.

Iced it, massaged it with a flat massage tool and rubbed in some biofreeze. Did the same again before getting into bed and this morning I've no side effects at all but I know I'll have to be careful with this for a week or two. With a batch of races coming up its really frustrating when you get a silly niggle like this.
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The plus to this, is that calf pulls heal very quickly with rest and stuff like foam rolling. I also find resting the affected calf on a hot water bottle at night helps too.

By the sounds of it, you`ve caught it early, so should be okay.

I`d drop any running down for the next week, to just very light jogging or even cycling , just to be safe, no speed work at all and no hills.
 
Pootsy said:
Frustration. At running club last night, the session was Temp Runs which is simply 2km reps done at a slightly quicker pace than normal with a 2 min recovery between reps. All going well until the 3rd rep when my calf muscle began to tighten. Stopped my session and walked back to the car. By the time I got home I was hobbling on the bugger.

Iced it, massaged it with a flat massage tool and rubbed in some biofreeze. Did the same again before getting into bed and this morning I've no side effects at all but I know I'll have to be careful with this for a week or two. With a batch of races coming up its really frustrating when you get a silly niggle like this.
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For me “ Speed Kills”. Back in lock down days I picked up an injury doing a Virtual Club challenge of a fast 3km . Not long afterwards I sat down and analysed and thought about injuries I’d sustained in previous years. Roughly 80 % were due to speedwork or races , some were a bit unknown or maybe overuse. Amongst other things I adjusted my runs to regular 3 times per week with appropriate rest. I’m still wary of those necessary speed sessions though.
 
blueloon said:
For me “ Speed Kills”. Back in lock down days I picked up an injury doing a Virtual Club challenge of a fast 3km . Not long afterwards I sat down and analysed and thought about injuries I’d sustained in previous years. Roughly 80 % were due to speedwork or races , some were a bit unknown or maybe overuse. Amongst other things I adjusted my runs to regular 3 times per week with appropriate rest. I’m still wary of those necessary speed sessions though.
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For me, age plays a big part too - you pick up more niggles, which take longer to heal, as you get older.

I,m not competitive anymore and only run for the fun of it, so I`ve pretty much knocked speed sessions on the head now and if I`m going to do any at all, just incorporate a bit of fartlek into my regular runs, which seems to be working, as the last " pull " I had was over a year ago and as much as I`m not competitive, my times seem to have got a bit better too !
 

blueloon said:
For me “ Speed Kills”. Back in lock down days I picked up an injury doing a Virtual Club challenge of a fast 3km . Not long afterwards I sat down and analysed and thought about injuries I’d sustained in previous years. Roughly 80 % were due to speedwork or races , some were a bit unknown or maybe overuse. Amongst other things I adjusted my runs to regular 3 times per week with appropriate rest. I’m still wary of those necessary speed sessions though.
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It’s a fair point. Easily in the 80%+ bracket for where my injuries occur. I’ve just been trying to get back to 5min/km after a long layoff with a hamstring tear from sprinting. It’s a hard thing to keep the brakes on when running. My mind knows it can go faster, my body needs more transition time to rebuild its strength and elasticity in the tendons and muscles again.
 
COYBL25 said:
The current train of thought is that static stretches are bad for you and dynamic stretching is the right thing to do before a run.

My first mile is pretty much down hill, so I treat that as my warm up.
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Only aerobic stretches are done statically with us. The rest is done running point 2 point while doing our Hamstring Stretches, Hip Flexor exercises etc
 
Used to run about 15 years ago, was up to 15 miles up a mountain road every other day, before life got on the way. The fella that works with me got diagnosed with prostate cancer a couple of months ago. An ad came up on my phone last month to run 60 miles for prostate cancer in April. I thought I could do that easy, totally forgetting I'm 43 and haven't ran or trained in 15 years. I told myself I've a month to do a bit of training start off easy and work my way up to 2/3 miles before the 1st of April. Next thing I know it's the 1st of April and I'd been out training a total of 1 time since I signed up. Today is exactly 2 weeks since the 1st of April and unbelievably I'm at 35 miles. How I don't know, just found a real mental toughness I never thought I had. The 1st 14 miles were easily 1 of the hardest thing I've ever done and equally 1 of the things I'm most proud of, because it was brutal and never once did I give up or stop.
 

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