Re: Do you run?
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:51 pm
Sierra Ledge Rat wrote:SeanReedy wrote:...If you aren't in an important race, walk down the steep hills...
Why didn't you tell me that sooner? Like 20 years ago?
If had know that, I might still be running today.
Instead, I spent the night trying to find a position to get my knee from aching and keeping me awake.
Yeah, I appreciate your trail running stories, partly because they remind me to follow my own advice. I was so excited to get back to my favorite trail running spot in the redwoods last weekend that I was running down long, steep hills at the end of an extra long, two hour, fast pace outing. I was okay because my legs and posterior are strong right now and I haven't been running down long, steep hills often. Short doses are fun and fine, but too much without walking breaks makes my hip sockets and IT bands sore and tight afterward.
My right knee gets irritated sometimes if I overdo anything as far as high volume combined with high intensity (I think due to history of Osgood-Schlatter's and letting myself get too heavy sometimes), but I'm always fine so far if I take it easy on the leg exercise for a few days-weeks after the rare flare ups. Surgeries are NOT something I hope to face, but at least options seem less invasive with better outcomes than in the past.