Discomfort when running > 5.0 MPH

As long as you dont have any sharp pain, your ailment may be just what you think, fatigue or over use.  The weakness may be just a simple case of tight muscles/muslce spasms. This problem is pretty common among triathletes, especially all the runing and biking that we do.  All of this excercise puts a heavy workload on our bodies. What do you expect your body to do when you ask it to run, bike, and swim as much as you do all the while when you dont sleep enough or become dehydrated. Simply put, if you train 4,5,6 days a week, then you need to do some kind of therapy 6 days a week.  You should try a couple of things.  First do some core strength excercises.  Second, check out this website, www.tpmassageball.com  this is what I mean by doing your own therapy.  Last, if you have any serious pain, go to a doctor.

Bmac  

Snow. Hmmm. Maybe we'll get it down here. Maybe. I haven't seen it in about five years. When I ran at my indoor track once, it made my right leg hurt. I connected it to the constant right turns. Now I try to stick to running outside, but less than warm winds may drive me inside! And since I've joined TNT, I can't use excuses to get out of training!

My left leg is slightly shorter than my right leg, which caused pain in my right knee and lower back when running and caused my hips to rock back and forth when pedaling at high cadence rates on my bike.

I now wear an orthodic insert in my left running and bike shoes which has pretty much solved the problems.

Mark