Sunday November 3, 2013
Today wasn’t a great run, in fact overall it was pretty
awful. I had to spend most of my run
paying very close attention to my body trying to figure out what is going
on. Starting by mile 3 my entire right
leg was cramping up. It started in the
hip and gradually the entire leg had cramped.
Of course at this point I was 3 miles from home and still had 6.5 miles
to go in my run. I did my best to
stretch out at mile 3 and made my way
home, managing to stay on pace. But now
came decision time – to scrap the run or keep going? This is never an easy decision to make and
you have to look at so many possibilities.
If this was the start of an injury would I be better off cutting the run
short and hopefully preventing a full injury?
But what about not getting the mileage in? How do I determine if this is an injury
versus growing pains? I mean after all
there is going to be discomfort with an increase in mileage. When I got to the
house to switch out my water bottle at mile 6 I decided to take time to stretch
that leg out. After 10 minutes of
stretching the pain was mostly gone and I felt ready to run again. I decided to go out and try to finish my run
but if I started to hurt at all I would turn around and go home. The run ended up going much better than
expected and I think I found the culprit of my pain – my new running shoes L Time to figure that
out…
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