Legs hurt - run or rest?

[Mich the Tester]

I guess you are right, but you are coming at this from the point of view of a serious athlete. I got the impression that
d000hg is just a fun-running bod that has just discovered a mild middle-age paunch, hence my suggestion.

Yes, and that's why I'm advising caution; the people you describe are the most likely ones to end up injured if they start exercising too hard too quickly. The other thing with fun-running bods is they often don't have the experience of 'listening to their bodies' or recognising the signals their body is giving them. For a serious athlete, pain is information; some kinds of pain are good and give quick information to change body position or slow down or even speed up. But to interpret that information you need experience and guidance. For the average bod pain is something they´d probably rather avoid and are better off avoiding.

Anyway, I used to be a serious athlete; I'm still quite fit, but my days as a really serious athlete have been sacrificed to old father time. Alas. It was good while it lasted!

[shaunbhoy]

Anyway, I used to be a serious athlete; Alas. It was good while it lasted!

Ditto. Serious enough to run a half marathon in under an hour and a half anyway, as well as good standard football, golf, tennis, swimming, volleyball and a few others too. Ah well............c'est la vie!

[Mich the Tester]

Ditto. Serious enough to run a marathon in under an hour and a half anyway, as well as good standard football, golf, tennis, swimming, volleyball and a few others too. Ah well............c'est la vie!

You mean a half marathon, I think?

Still, not bad at all. Bloody good in fact. I wouldn't even attempt a marathon, but then I'm not really made for endurance events.

[Doggy Styles]

Ditto. Serious enough to run a marathon in under an hour and a half anyway, as well as good standard football, golf, tennis, swimming, volleyball and a few others too. Ah well............c'est la vie!

Crikey SB, now I know why Gabrisalasie retired!

[Mich the Tester]

Crikey SB, now I know why Gabrisalasie retired!

I know a chap who runs marathons; he managed a sub 4 hour marathon for the first time recently and said to the winner, a Kenyan chap who ran it in about 2 hours 15 ‘you wimp, I managed to keep running for twice as long as you!’

[Doggy Styles]

Still, not bad at all. Bloody good in fact. I wouldn't even attempt a marathon, but then I'm not really made for endurance events.

Am I getting deja vu again, or did we discuss this before?

[Mich the Tester]

Am I getting deja vu again, or did we discuss this before?

yes...
and yes

[shaunbhoy]

I know a chap who runs marathons; he managed a sub 4 hour marathon for the first time recently and said to the winner, a Kenyan chap who ran it in about 2 hours 15 ‘you wimp, I managed to keep running for twice as long as you!’

My mistake. Yes that was my half-marathon time, the Shetlands Half-Marathon in 1984. I ran the London Marathon earlier that year in just under 3 and a half hours. Fit as fook back then....................and the odd stone lighter.

[Doggy Styles]

yes...
and yes

IIRC You were a 400m / discus man, I was 10K/ Half-marathon / cross-country.

Buggered if I could do all that LSD training needed to compete at marathon.

[Doggy Styles]

Going back to dooohg's aching legs, don't forget the micro-tears in muscles. Occurs when you do something hard you are not used to. Repairing these micro-tears is the muscle's way of strengthening.