I have started running again and have put a couple of 30 mile weeks in. No intensity yet. Just easy running. Last thursday and today (thur) I experienced some flare ups in my shin. Last weekend they went away, even after a 13 mile long run. This week they came back, but a little worse. Both thursdays have been hot and humid. After today's six miler it actually hurt. I have been running for five weeks and this is the first time it has hurt.
Has anyone else experiences like this? Do you have ups and downs? Should I just take another couple weeks off it again and try again? This is really getting the best of me, since I can't seem to figure out how to heal this damn thing up. I'm such a frickin idiot.
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I have started running again and have put a couple of 30 mile weeks in.
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intensity yet. Just easy running.
You all make me feel bad. I am running 7-8 miles at least every other day during the week in about 60 minutes. I feel that my running is pretty intense...I know it isn't going to win me any gold medals, but I feel pretty good about myself...
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"Joe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message -"]news:[email hidden]- kc.rr.com...
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I have started running again and have put a couple of 30 mile weeks in.
No
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intensity yet. Just easy running.
You all make me feel bad. I am running 7-8 miles at least every other day during the week in about 60 minutes. I feel that my running is pretty intense...I know it isn't going to win me any gold medals, but I feel
pretty
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good about myself...
As you should. It's all relative - in my first couple months I found a 20 - 25 mile week (no speedwork or anything) to be "pretty serious". It was strenuous and yes, quite intense. Just like any other sport, as you improve what was once very hard becomes routine.
cheers, -- David (in Hamilton, ON) www.allfalldown.org "The most insecure people are the ones you see, putting other people down constantly."
I have started running again and have put a couple of 30 mile weeks in. No intensity yet. Just easy running. Last thursday and today (thur) I experienced some flare ups in my shin. Last weekend they went away, even after a 13 mile long run. This week they came back, but a little worse. Both thursdays have been hot and humid. After today's six miler it actually hurt. I have been running for five weeks and this is the first time it has hurt.
Has anyone else experiences like this? Do you have ups and downs? Should I just take another couple weeks off it again and try again? This is really getting the best of me, since I can't seem to figure out how to heal this damn thing up. I'm such a frickin idiot.
Why do you have to go 30 miles a week, right away, after not running at all for a long time? Why not start up with fewer miles, get used to it again, and gradually ramp up the distance? It's just like starting the first time.
Your body is trying to tell you something. Listen to it. Pain is your bodies way of saying that you are over-doing it. While you are rebuilding, you need to do less on each workout day, and take more rest days.
When I feel my shins begin to hurt I know Im over doing it and I need to back off my training schedule. But I am still able to run, I just run for three or four weeks at a local high school track. A track that has a football field in the middle. These fields in my area are made of a super cushony rubber under an synthetic grass surface. I run on the edge right next to the track but still on the field. Its like heaven run on and gives me a rest from the pounding that i need.
Good luck,
Jim
"Joe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message -"]news:[email hidden]- kc.rr.com...
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I have started running again and have put a couple of 30 mile weeks in.
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intensity yet. Just easy running. Last thursday and today (thur) I experienced some flare ups in my shin. Last weekend they went away, even after a 13 mile long run. This week they came back, but a little worse. Both thursdays have been hot and humid. After today's six miler it
actually
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hurt. I have been running for five weeks and this is the first time it
has
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hurt.
Has anyone else experiences like this? Do you have ups and downs? Should
I
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just take another couple weeks off it again and try again? This is really getting the best of me, since I can't seem to figure out how to heal this damn thing up. I'm such a frickin idiot.
