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A few aches and pains

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Have recently completed the couchto5k. Really keen. Perhaps too keen. Tendonitis has restricted activity. Any advise on something to do during recovery time?

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IannodaTruffeMentor

Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your graduation fellow runner.

This guide to post C25K running may be helpful healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

All runners need good core strength, so working on that and any other general strengthening exercises will be beneficial to your running.

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DiscoRunnerGraduate

More to add about when you can start running again. When we’ve completed c25k we’ve run for a little over 8 hours. So even after a couple of months we’ve probably only added another 12 hours of running to that total - which means we are still prone to injury. When you can run again try the Japanese slow jogging technique- is low impact and designed to avoid injury. It’s great for building strength and stamina. Get strong running this way, and then if pace is important to you, you could do a lot of training at this slow pace (it’s what elite athletes do!), and work on pace about 20% of the time. Here’s to a speedy recovery!

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