Thigh pain

[Dups]

Having completed W6R3 last week left my legs feeling a bit sore and achey, but now I’m wondering if I have a little muscle strain in my right thigh. Having already had an ankle injury at week 6 weeks ago where I had to rest for 5 weeks I feel like I’m going one step forward and two back.

Having finally got past week 6 and I want to start week 7. I’m worried this niggle will get worse, or I’m I over worrying?

Any advice please? 😟

[nowster Graduate]

Have you been doing any of the recommended after run stretches?

nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/h...

[Dups Graduate]

Yeah, been stretching before and after, but will look on that website you have advised and make sure I’m doing the right ones and doing them correctly. Thanks for that

[IannodaTruffe Mentor in reply to Dups]

Dynamic stretching pre run, static stretching post run as linked to in the guide to the plan.

[nowster Graduate in reply to Dups]

If you do the static (held) stretches before the run, you're telling the muscles that they can relax now. This is the opposite of doing a warm-up.

Before a run you need to be doing dynamic (moving) stretches and the brisk warm-up walk.

[Dups Graduate in reply to nowster]

I always do the brisk walk at the beginning every run but I thought because it was a longer run I would extra stretches! Well I got that totally wrong 😱 Will definitely no better for future runs . You can tell I’m a novice runner. Thanks so much for your advice