Week 3 run 2

[RunningForBroke]

Tough, but I did it. I'm still experiencing deep muscle pain , but expect that is par for the course. Despite some pain, I'm quite happy to be outside and proud that I completed the run again. Woo hoo!

[mfamilias Graduate]

Well done! Woot woot! The muscles will start getting used to the new demands soon. Make sure that you stretch after you run

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to mfamilias]

I am, I am. Also, I try to keep moving for a while. 😃

[AbracaDeborah Graduate]

Great to get outside in the fresh air, well done and here's to run 3

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to AbracaDeborah]

Woo hoo!

[gary_bart]

Once you're in Week 3, you're really getting into it. Lovely park or bit of countryside you have to run in there. Great to hear you're enjoying it.

One thing I found helped with stiffness was to warm down a bit longer, and to ease off down to quite a leisurely stroll.

For some stiffness, breathing a bit more heavily than you feel the need to (careful, though) can sometimes help clear it. You build up sarcolactic acid when you go anaerobic (basically when your muscles don't run on oxygen), and it's that that makes you feel stiff (roughly). The stiffness goes as oxygen arrives, and the lactic acid is metabolised. (I think once there's oxygen around, it's actually "food" or fuel). So if you supply a bit of excess oxygen, you reuse some of your lactic acid buildup as fuel, and have less pain as a bonus. Too much of this and you're hyperventilating, though, which I've heard can be into-the-coffin lethal.

The other side is that it's not a good idea to try and breathe less noisily or whatever (to try and breathe less, to look more cool, I suppose). If you're out of puff, pant; it's good for you. (And I suspect that that last sentence is the only one that isn't dodgy. All the rest is really just a hypothesis I have that I've convinced myself "feels like it works").

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to gary_bart]

No worries. I let myself breathe how I need to. I already look like a discombobulated velociraptor while running. Panting doesn't do much. 😉 Of course I ran into someone I hadn't seen in months while in full running kit. Ha! I wasn't too embarrassed though.

[Anaverageman Graduate]

well done, nice trees too!

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to Anaverageman]

Thanks! It is a pretty little park.

[jamsammich Graduate]

Well done! That's a really nice view 😊

[RunningForBroke Graduate in reply to jamsammich]

That's a small park behind my place that I like to run in. I'm lucky to have somewhere pretty to go.