Running With Soreness/Tightness?

Better I Leave

posted: 1/21/2013 at 6:28 PM
modified: 1/22/2013 at 1:34 AM

Milzed...

rgilbert

posted: 1/21/2013 at 6:37 PM

Yes. Easy/recovery runs often help me shake off soreness and tightness, too. If it gets worse with running, doesn't go away with running, or progresses to pain, then I stop.

Figuring out the line between sore and painful is the real magic. I'm still working on that, too (been at this less than two years).

"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem."
Emil Zatopek

MJ5

Chief Unicorn Officer

posted: 1/21/2013 at 6:47 PM

I do. If I didn't run when I was sore or achey, I'd probably never run! I had a chronic piriformis issue and I ran through it for over a year. If it's something that persists for awhile, see a PT...the only time I really rest for injury is if it's really intense or sharp pain.

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Better I Leave

posted: 1/21/2013 at 6:52 PM
modified: 1/22/2013 at 1:34 AM

Milzed...

zonykel

posted: 1/21/2013 at 9:11 PM

Try the foam roller or the stick. Speaking of which, I need to start using again.

MilkTruck

posted: 1/21/2013 at 9:47 PM

I have feeling, based on all you've posted about your past in body building and/or weight lifting...that you know the answer. Sore muscles respond well to light workouts and the workout can speed the healing and reduce the soreness. Pain is a different matter.

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spaniel

mileage hound

posted: 1/21/2013 at 10:17 PM

Quote from MilkTruck on 1/21/2013 at 9:47 PM:

Sore muscles respond well to light workouts and the workout can speed the healing and reduce the soreness. Pain is a different matter.

This.

I'm up to moderate on the pain scale....or it presents in such a way as to suggest a specific injury...before I actually don't run. Slow down, longer warmup, yes.

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skyedog

posted: 1/22/2013 at 1:32 AM

i've worked through many issues over the years & whenever I feel any tightness or twinges will back off abit. walking for a few minutes before & after workout helps me. doing an easy run/walk also helps tremendously at times. had some slight tightness in my left hamstring & slight discomfort back of right knee this am so I did an easy run/walk for an hour. its ok to do that at times. its a good mental as well physical break. don't try to push it especially with hm coming up soon. better to take it easier & be more refreshed/whole at the starting line than being mentally/physically stressed.

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