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 2010-04-29 9:02 AM |
Champion  5868     Urbandale, IA |  Subject: Back pain while runningOk - since sometime in November I have been making the gradual change to being a more forefoot runner. I have been pretty successful with this and have trimmed a minute off of my mile times. The next step was to increase my turnover. As I have started to do this - for about the last 4 weeks - I have been getting pain in my mid-back (about where my elbows would align). It is really a tightness and I am lead to believe that when I attempt to pick up the turnover, my upper body gets tense. If I lengthen the stride (which causes me to lose turnover poace and lose the forefoot strike) I slow down but my back pain releases. I attempted to do a run where my stride was lengthened and the strike was more mid-foot, but I slowed way down when doing this. Fixes? Am I missing something in the technique? Is there a form problem ofr fix where I can help to rela |
| 2010-04-29 9:10 AM in reply to: #2825123 |
Runner | Subject: RE: Back pain while running It means you're not ready. Don't force it. Let it come naturally. |
| 2010-04-29 9:33 AM in reply to: #2825147 |
Champion 5868 Urbandale, IA | Subject: RE: Back pain while running Scout7 - 2010-04-29 9:10 AM It means you're not ready. Don't force it. Let it come naturally. I don't have time for naturally. When are you and buck and change gonna learn that I am not patient? Seriously - I have been running constantly for a couple of years now. Naturally has gained me less than 2 minutes per mile. I realize my situation is unique - but not that damn unique. |
| 2010-04-29 9:42 AM in reply to: #2825224 |
Runner | Subject: RE: Back pain while running Are you doing drills? Hills? Speed work? |
| 2010-04-29 10:26 AM in reply to: #2825123 |
Master 1678 Olney, MD | Subject: RE: Back pain while running It is really a tightness and I am lead to believe that when I attempt to pick up the turnover, my upper body gets tense. If you think it's because you're tensing up, focus on keeping your jaw relaxed. A relaxed jaw usually forces the rest of your body to follow. |
| 2010-04-29 11:40 AM in reply to: #2825252 |
Champion 5868 Urbandale, IA | Subject: RE: Back pain while running Scout7 - 2010-04-29 9:42 AM Are you doing drills? Hills? Speed work? Yes sir. I do hills once a week and I do a tempo run once per week. Additionally I do one LSD and one easy pace of about 45 minutes, on average, which I add 4 or 5 strides of 100 yards. It comes down to around 4:25 to 4:30 per week on regular weeks. With me, that's about 50 miles or so, depending (hills I don't go as far, obviously) but I have never really concentrated on the number of miles and more on the minutes running. |
| 2010-04-29 11:41 AM in reply to: #2825400 |
Champion 5868 Urbandale, IA | Subject: RE: Back pain while running vball03umd - 2010-04-29 10:26 AM It is really a tightness and I am lead to believe that when I attempt to pick up the turnover, my upper body gets tense. If you think it's because you're tensing up, focus on keeping your jaw relaxed. A relaxed jaw usually forces the rest of your body to follow. I'll try that this afternoon, thanks. |
| 2010-04-29 11:56 AM in reply to: #2825123 |
Member 281 | Subject: RE: Back pain while running Your hips might be tight. Talk to a PT about it. PT in my training group gave me some hip stretchs and my back tightness during running disappeared. Your tightness/pain sounds like it might be a little higher up than where my was located. If you don't talk to a PT but want to try the stretches I think the same hip streches the PT gave me were on Running Times website video. |
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