After You Run??

akaMrsmojo

I just started running for the first time in my whole life. I am on week 3 of the C25K.

At first when I ran, I itched like crazy afterwards. Now when I run, my hips tingle for awhile. Has any one else dealt with that? Is it normal?

JEK717

I have felt the itch...i have heard it's pretty normal:)

joannbuist23

I believe it means you are burning calories. Good job, keep it up!

natekorpusik

Your body will adjust in it's own way. I am not a runner, but I do run... if that makes sense. 6 weeks ago I started running again for the first time in almost a decade. I couldn't go very far and I was sore all the time. I ran through the soreness (but not injuries) and found that I wasn't getting so sore anymore. Now I run to the point where I get sore again and that lets me know I am in a good workout. When I started 6 weeks ago I was running 1-2 miles a day. Now I run at least 5 miles a day at a good clip (5-6mph). It is important that you stick with it and not give up because you are sore. It is also important that if you feel injured that you consult your physician. I did not get a tingling in my hips, but I did get weakness in my knees and some pain in my lower back. Those eventually worked themselves out. But I must stress that this was soreness and not injury... they are very different. Good luck.

LilRedRooster

I think it has to do with the nerves around your joints getting extra pressure from the workout and reacting to that. When I first started running, that happened to me, too, but it didn't last that long as everything got used to it.

Congrats on getting into running! I've loved it for years.

lmr9

When I first started getting back into running, my thighs itched like crazy! I have no idea what it is though. Doesn't happen to me any more, but I would love to know what that was...

starboardzor

I've been running for about 6 or 7 years. Anytime I fall out of it for a couple weeks, for injury, winter, laziness, then pick it back up again? I get the itch. Around the butt and hips. I don't know what it is!! But I take it as motivation to pull myself out of the slump. As I run more and more it goes away, maybe because the skin gets taunter.

KeyMasterOfGozer

When I first started getting back into running, my thighs itched like crazy! I have no idea what it is though. Doesn't happen to me any more, but I would love to know what that was...

Same here, I never though much about it until the OP posted, but when I first started running, my thighs itched like crazy too.

AnaNotBanana

I get this too. I joke that I'm allergic to exercising. This is what I found and have noticed that it has subsided the more I worked out.


The most common cause of itchy legs is actually because of what's happening inside the skin, not on it. When we exercise, the millions of tiny capillaries and arteries inside our muscles expand rapidly because of the demand for more blood. If we're fit, these capillaries remain open allowing maximum blood passage, but, when unfit and inactive, they tend to collapse, allowing only minimal blood passage (which, by the way, is fine for a sedentary person). The expansion of the capillaries causes adjacent nerves to send impulses to the brain, which then reads the sensation as an itch.

00trayn

I know exactly what you mean, for me it's my hips/lower back area, it tends to get itchy especially running outside. I don't quite know what causes it or how to stop it or what, but I've been running for a while and it still happens. Even after a hard workout in general, my lower back gets itchy. I just try not to scratch and make it worse, but while I was running 5K outside on Monday, I actually stopped to walk for a few seconds because I thought a bug crawled up there or something it itched so bad!

akaMrsmojo

My acupuncturist told me the itch had to do with the liver and circulation. She said it was a good sign that everything is functioning properly. However it has been 3 years since I have seen her and I can't ask about the tingling. I do not feel bad but it is just different.

I have fell in love with running. It really clears my head and it helps me control my tendency to worry. I hope the tingling is a sign of burning fat.

iRun4wine

When I first started running I would itch like crazy- as if I was breaking out in hives or something. But, it does go away rather quickly as your body adapts. Now, if I go a stretch without running much (like lately), when I pick up the miles again the same thing happens. But, it always goes away on it's own rather quickly. Hope that helps. :flowerforyou:

xSmileyLeighx

At first, when I started to run, my thighs itched a lot. I think it's normal though.