Okay – so, I know it’s a dreadful pun… but ome interesting comments from Ben and Steve on yesterday’s post about delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) (see them here).
Basically when you run, your muscles are being forced to lengthen when they want to contract, which is why you get pain and stiffness afterwards as the muscles suffer small tears when doing this. Once healed though, theoretically, the muscle fibres should grow back stronger, which could mean my body will eventually right itself.
Whatever is going on with the legs, they certainly feel better than they did this time last week – and that was before I ran 18.5 miles at the weekend – so hopefully Im catching up with myself.
I ran – resplendent in my new 1095miles.com top - today around Norbury Grove, a stretch of green between here are Norbury where the ground is pretty soft giving my legs some respite from pounding the pavements. I’d also gone out later in the afternoon, just to try and give the legs an extra few hours kip, but had not figured school out time into the equation – cut loads of laughter from a few feriles at my running tights.
A couple of girls really took the biscuit though…
One of them shouted ‘Excuse me’ as I ran past and asked me if I would pretend to be her teacher, call her dad and pretend that she had been in school yesterday. I was tempted to just nab the Blackberry she thrust in my general direction and run off (it was a nice one, she was about 14, she doesn’t really need a Blackberry) but of course, I just fumbled some excuse about not being able to lie on her behalf and carried on running with her shouts of ‘Please, please’ echoing somewhere behind me.
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Miles today: 3
Target: 516
Miles to date: 666.1
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