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redsquirrel80

I'll give that a go Maz, I do those but not generally right before running!

Rich, have googled that blog, very interesting but it seems to me he's saying that the Pilates was exhausting and hard work (which it can be) hence not wanting to do it too close to a big run, not that the combination of the two caused the injury. Actually when I got the injury in the first place, I'd not been doing Pilates as all my time was taken up with the walking training.. I think it was caused by walking 26 miles on a very chilly June night.. it was so much colder than I'd expected, if I ever do it again I'll have those heat pads strapped to my thighs... :rotfl:

RichOneday_2

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

I'll give that a go Maz, I do those but not generally right before running!

Rich, have googled that blog, very interesting but it seems to me he's saying that the Pilates was exhausting and hard work (which it can be) hence not wanting to do it too close to a big run, not that the combination of the two caused the injury. Actually when I got the injury in the first place, I'd not been doing Pilates as all my time was taken up with the walking training.. I think it was caused by walking 26 miles on a very chilly June night.. it was so much colder than I'd expected, if I ever do it again I'll have those heat pads strapped to my thighs... :rotfl:

I don't have any experience of Pilates, but I have had those strains before.

They never end up being as serious as you first fear and just work themselves out.

Heat pads strapped to thighs sounds like a good move. I can just see the cowboy walk......

redsquirrel80

RichOneday wrote: »

I don't have any experience of Pilates, but I have had those strains before.

They never end up being as serious as you first fear and just work themselves out.

Heat pads strapped to thighs sounds like a good move. I can just see the cowboy walk......

LOL.. I was walking like a cowboy anyway by the end of it, my friend's dad picked us up and it took me about five minutes to climb into the car

Hopefully it'll ease up soon, I'll try Maz's 'opening legs and bending over' exercises *snigger*

RichOneday_2

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

LOL.. I was walking like a cowboy anyway by the end of it, my friend's dad picked us up and it took me about five minutes to climb into the car

Hopefully it'll ease up soon, I'll try Maz's 'opening legs and bending over' exercises *snigger*

I've just had a look at that Moonwalk - quite some achievement!

That is a lot of time on the feet. I walked 34 miles last week, which is the most I've ever done, but that was spread over 7 sessions. 26 miles in one session - tough!

becky_rtw

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

LOL.. I was walking like a cowboy anyway by the end of it, my friend's dad picked us up and it took me about five minutes to climb into the car

Hopefully it'll ease up soon, I'll try Maz's 'opening legs and bending over' exercises *snigger*

Hi Red,

Just to get in on the act of discussing your injury - I have had this pain also which is a hangover from a very old gymnastics injury... its usually something to do with stretching the muscles out in a ballet/gym/probably pilates way and then rapidly contracting them when running...

So my answer was to do gym stretches only on days when I hadnt been running (it seems to be okay if I do it before) - I think thats because the running breaks down that muscle and then if you stretch it gets damaged.

Anyway, just my silly thoughts, the pain has gone away mostly now, but I havent done any serious ballet/gym for a while so it could just be that (although I did do the splits while showing off at a party a few weeks ago and it didnt hurt a bit )...

beer_tins

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

and when he next corrects my spelling i will direct him to my spelling of gip/gyp/jip/jyp and say well i wasn't sure so gave him the option to correct.....

Sorry, I've taken my pedant hat off today! I just couldn't resist a comment on Pompeii. You spell however you like and take no notice of me!

RichOneday_2

Now that makes sense Becky!

When you run you snap the outer most fibres of a muscle 'fibre bundle' and the remaining fibres in the bundle tighten up to prevent further damage. So they become less open to being stretched until the damage has been repaired.

I take it Pilates is quite extreme stretching then? Because gentle stretching would actually help the recovery.

beer_tins

RichOneday wrote: »

Well, I always knew it! :T

PS That means when Beinerts comes on saying we're straying from the subject, we can point to our academic research work as evidence that we're not slackers! What d'ya think?

I'm very impressed with you both! Besides, most of my recent posts have been off topic due to a lack of running on my part.

Did a lot of running during 5-a-side last night though. No idea what distance I covered during that, but it was 45 minutes more-or-less solid running as we had no sub. Add the fact that two of our players are very good (much more so than me) but lazy and it means the remaining player and I had to cover an awful lot more ground to get back and defend, run into space etc. I thought I might ache today, but glad to report I don't feel a thing. Guess my general fitness must still be reasonably good.

(Land_of)_Maz

Thanks beinerts!

Red - could you also do the sat on bum, feet together then feet pulled in towards bum, push down on inner thigh stretch, it might work the same group effectively.. definately not a normal running stretch but might help your particular ache afterwards...

as becky says major stretching before a run where you lengthen the muscle then running to shorten the muscle is probably counter productive....

whereas stretching afterwards can only be a good thing....



(get me! i've swallowed a training guide in my sleep!!!)

(Land_of)_Maz

did you win the football then beinerts?!