I'm in need of a little help/advice from all you fantastic runners out there.....
For the last couple of weeks, when I run, my right calf tightens up and usually takes until the next day to get back to normal. I always warm up and cool down properly. I can't think why it is happening or how to try and put it right.... Any suggestions would be greatfully received.....please!
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I'll think about calves while wrenching off a toenail in the next half-hour.
I wouldn't go to the dodgy F&B clinic ;-)
Hmmm lovely thought as I take a bite from my sandwich (toe nail wrenching......)
No, have had trainers for about 6 months...
It did begin as I was passing mile 8.5 of the GSR (that was the furthest I'd ever ran before but I don't suppose that's relevant?)
Even now, it happens on anything past 2 miles.....
It's actually on the out edges most of the way up and down (does that make sense?)
Oh and Tim, if your pain is in the same place it's your Jazz 6000s that are to blame - not a stable shoe when new, and your pair are clapped out. You're going to have to face your better half...
I hope the words "Grandmother" and "eggs" aren't coming to mind!
Hope you can get it sorted.
What brand of shoes are you using? Assuming you're pretty light anything moderately stable would do.
Bear, I would normally assume tendonitis would be straighter up the back of the leg and lower down. Massage would certainly do no harm though.
Glenn, I've actually had them just over 5 months and have only upped my mileage of late... (Reebok DMX runners -won't be getting them again - not overly impressed!)
I think I'll visit my local running shop and get my running assessed and all that...
It will probably be worth it in the long run. But will that help my calf? we'll see..
The standard treatment is reducing your mileage by about a third (or to whatever you can do comfortably), ice, anti-inflammatories if it's bad enough to prevent you from walking normally, and a gait assessment to see whether you need a different type of shoe. You're well due a new pair anyway, if only to rotate with the Reeboks (I didn't know Reebok did proper running shoes - doh!) to vary the biomechanical stresses.
Hope you're soon on the mend!
Tim, when your sprats are big enough to demand clothing with labels, you will bitterly regret having denied yourself the luxury of lots of pairs of delightfully expensive running shoes.
Cheers, V-rap.
http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net
Check it out and if you're anything like me you'll feel all of the symptoms for just about everything!
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0031.htm
V-rap, if I was to cut my average 'weekday run' by a third (5m) I might as well stay at home.. but think I might ease off and do some cross-training and see if it helps?
At least now I know that I buy crap running shoes and should buy more often!!! I'm off to the running shop at the weekend!!!
I'm just off to check out your exercise web site Glenn...
Thank you all!
Want to swap trainers notes? hee hee
V-rap... I'm interested in your comment about rotating shoes. After running a 10K at the weekend in essentially new shoes (I know stupid! but it was a tough choice, stability or no stability and potentially more problems) I can understand the need to break them in so to speak but you seemed to be saying something else about decreasing biomechanical stress.. could you expand... are you saying it would reduce the stress caused by one set even though the second set might be the same make and type?
Cheers
Mike
My approach is to buy a new pair when the next newest pair has about 250-300 miles on board, try them out on the treadmill a few times, then let the oldest pair become walking shoes.
It could all be pure pseudoscience, but it's an excuse to buy lots of trainers!
What if it means we spend more! Initially at least! Your going to buy them in the long run anyway... just that you might buy more over time because you decrease the chance of potential injuries... that to me is a bargin
Cheers
Mike
Best
Adam
I ended up buying a new pair of Saucony Grid Jazz which I test drove yesterday and I'm pleased to say that not only did my time improve but there was absolutely no calf pain at all!!
Maybe you should try it too Tim!
What run on Sunday? hope all goes well!