Reply to: Legs hurt - run or rest?

[xoggoth]

Last gym I was at was part of the local rugby club. The masseuse was called Dinah. Really.

[Mich the Tester]

As an aside, we were introduced to our new Club Physio at the rugby club yesterday, who replaces the chap who'd done the job for the last few years.

Her arrival has prompted a spate of sudden and rather vague groin and hamstring complaints among the first team squad.

[shaunbhoy]

Not fun
Not middle-aged
Not really a paunch (yet)

You go d000hgster!! Yeeeehaaaaa!!

[xoggoth]

No expert but personally I find it works to ignore pains and stiffness and just keep going, soon improves. Lot to do with mood too, I find running somewhere new on a nice day is so much easier than a slog round some very familiar street or park.

PS If you find a Sharp mobile phone on your runs it's mine.

[Mich the Tester]

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.

60m/100m and throwing events. If you can't see the finish from the start, take a bus.

[StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff]

I went for the first run in months yesterday, culminating in a seriously steep hill. Today the fronts of my thighs are locked solid and very sore, ever step hurts. Everything else is fine so I am blaming the hill.
Anyway question to those who know anything about this... better to have a rest day, or exercise them with a walk/jog/something?

Sorry Sas, not the exciting thread you requested.

I say keep on running you sissy!
Pain is transitory!

HTH

[d000hg]

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.

Not fun
Not middle-aged
Not really a paunch (yet)

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Mich the Tester]

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

yes...
and yes

[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]

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]

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]

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.