Pain in leg when run - Advice?

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  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    edited February 2018
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    Stop running for more than 10 minutes.

    Not sure what you mean ?
    The issue occurs after around 10 minutes of running and then I do stop as running through the discomfort won't do me any good.

    You said you can run and feel great for 10 minutes but after 10 minutes it starts to hurt.

    So don't run for more than 10 minutes or even stop after 8 minutes before you have pain.

    Perhaps you can VERY gradually increase your running time. Like increase your time 30 seconds each week or every other week.

    This does nothing to fix the underlying cause of his pain. Horrible advice

    It might, if it's just maladaptation to running.

    But they have already been running for 5 months, and once the problem started it wasn't cured with a lot of rest. A too much too soon issue likely wouldn't have presented this way.

    Except every time he comes back from rest he jumps right back into running 10 minutes. Instead of easing into the running 30 or 45 or 60 seconds at a stretch.

    If you have to incrementally increase your running by seconds at a time, something is wrong and it's not going to fix itself. That's completely absurd.

    IF every time you start up running, you run till it hurts, It can't fix itself.

    That's why running programs are graduated.

    FWIW a friend of mine is just coming back from a calf tear. Her first runs were 5 minutes easy pace, 1 minute walking. Whilst the principle that you're identifying is valid, for someone who's already a runner the early days of C25K really aren't appropriate. While she's a fellow ultra-runner, the principles are valid.
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