All my life I’ve been a trained avid runner until the last few years I do it whenever I feel like it which is increasingly rarely. I’m 50 years old now. So suddenly I run 8 miles after not having run for months, and my aging body is like, “You’re hereby punished for your months of laziness! Enjoy these shin splints & frozen painful calves!” And it takes literally 7 days for the pain to go away. How the heck am I supposed to keep running if I’m crippled for 7 days after every run??

Edit: https://leminal.space/post/29335042 I guess I should read & learn from this.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    Thank you, update: I’ve been going light on the running, like I stopped at a quarter mile the first time (even though I wanted to go TEN), and then I stopped at one mile the next time, and my calves are a little bit sore but not incapacitated like before, and I am on the up and up again. Thank you for your advice.