Anyone else had this and can give advice to speed recovery up?
I did my last run of week two on friday and felt pain in my lower back. I am running a bit more than the app is telling me too, doing a couple of extra runs to enable me to do 5 or 6k.
I went out on Sunday and the pain was there from the start but eased when I was running. I added another 3min run at the end but ended up running for 8mins as I was enjoying it. Could hardly walk afterwards.
I've done a bit of research and think this is what I am suffering from. Foolishly I have been slack on stretching before and after runs and think this has been my downfall. I'm gutted as I know I will have to stop running until it gets better. I'm doing exercises to help recovery and wonder if anyone can give me some other advice? Thanks for reading.