SWBKRUN- Miles and Miles ahead!!!! CLOSED (Page 124)

Subject: RE: SWBKRUN- Miles and Miles ahead!!!! CLOSED

kt65 - 2010-01-29 1:52 PM

tri-chic - 2010-01-29 5:55 AM

I have a survey question....I'm so use to aches and pains I don't know what's normal anymore. 

Do your feet hurt in the morning when you get up? Not a specific painful spot like PF but just a general ache till you take a few steps?

Trying to decide what pains are from running and what is just getting older.

Funny, I posed this question to Suzy when I first started ramping up the running mileage in the fall.  I had gotten so used to achy, sore, stiff ankles and feet for the first few minutes upon awakening, that I thought it was normal!  to be honest, my ankles were kind of sore throughout the day, too!  btw, i am 44, so older than you, i think.
At the time, she said, she never had this problem, maybe I needed to do deep tissue massage or at the very least get into a regular stretching, foam rolling/or trigger point (myofascial release). 

I took her advice and invested in the trigger point quadroller and footballer?(the one for calves) and it has made a world of difference!  http://store.tptherapy.com/Trigger_Point_Total_Body_Package_U6_Book_p/tpt-ttlb.htm
for some reason, i don't remember it being that expensive, I think I went on amazon.

The one for the calves is wonderful!  You can get alot of release from foam rollers for the quads, but for the calves, this is the best!  I have not had a re-inflammation of my old pf, my ankles are much stronger (less random ankle sprains,etc).

Compression socks are good, too, however, it sounds like what you are describing is pretty close to what I experienced...now, I was going from about 15-18 mi/week to about 20-25 at the time, so I don't know where you are at right now, I remember you are coming back from an injury?

pm me if you have any questions 

Thank you all for your input.  This issue has been on going even when I was resting over the last year.  I use to get up trying to pin point the pain which was in my heels but has now moved to a general tightness.  It's not sharp and doesn't even really hurt I just step lighter for the first couple of steps and it's just not suppose to be there.   Does that make any sense?   My achilles and calves are beyond tight and have been forever.  I have been doing 10 minutes of stretching/rolling on the foam roller everyday + yoga twice a week for the last two months and massages about once a month with little change in flexibility which is very fustrating.  My running time is only up to 30 min and then it's a run/walk.  I am trying out the barefoot running because I think it will ultimately help my achilles issues and that takes a lot of slow building.    Found a local store that carries the Trigger Point tools today and will try and get by this weekend and add that to the arsenal.    ...Oh and the compression socks.  Hadn't thought of that.  I'll give it a whirl while it's still cool.

Thanks for letting me vent.  Sounds like I need to keep doing what I'm doing.  Back up from 3-4/1 run/walks to maybe 2/1 or 2/2.  Oh, and stay patient.  Grrrr....

On my favorite subject of food...that soup sounds yummy.  Finally got a cool spell here this weekend and made another yummy EASY Potato and Corn Chowder.  Good Stuff!