This might be the only way I could feel worse running! Never been a morning runner and I can't think getting up at 5am to cram a run in before my commute would change that. Plus the body usually feels horrible first thing in the morning, noticed a lot of foot soreness and ankle tightness on wake up, so I can't imagine this!
I'm the same; running within an hour of waking up is horrible, and after work is such a drag. Immediately before lunch is the perfect solution. Always fresh and motivated, it's never dark, it has a proper daytime, everyone's up and busy feel to it. The difference is huge, for me at least. No idea about the foot thing - massage, foot spa/salts, hot bath after a run, go barefoot indoors (or vice versa), elevate your feet whenever possible?
I always hear this advice of "listen to your body" and take rest days when you need it but if I actually took this advice, I would just never run. When I run after work, I always feel something. The first 10 minutes of every run is basically just determining whether that feeling will plateau or get worse. So why do people say this? Running does not feel good!
To "workout" is defined as "to bring about by labor and exertion".
Running is a form of "exertion" and "labor" that is meant to be uncomfortable. It is not to be compared to sitting in a hot tub having a cocktail, or lying on the couch watching a movie. It is meant to raise your heart rate, make you sweat, strain muscles to fatigue, and cause shortness of breath. All of these stressors are needed to keep the body in-check, and subsequently, activate the body to recover, heal, and become more fit, which ultimately makes you feel better.
Stop trying to make working out EASY! it's not supposed to be.
This might be the only way I could feel worse running! Never been a morning runner and I can't think getting up at 5am to cram a run in before my commute would change that. Plus the body usually feels horrible first thing in the morning, noticed a lot of foot soreness and ankle tightness on wake up, so I can't imagine this!
I'm the same; running within an hour of waking up is horrible, and after work is such a drag.
What a bunch of weaklings.
I'm over 50, have had two surgeries, and don't whine like this.
one day you will have the choice. learn to listen. or lose running. likely you'll lose quite a bit before you learn to listen. then perhaps get some back. but you will need to learn what clues matter. or you will lose running. or maybe you can just ignore it all and jog a little less than 2 miles 3 days a week and get away with it for a long time. listening often takes 24 hours. even if it feels like no big deal. give it time. you'll see. if you escape the couch for long enough
I always hear this advice of "listen to your body" and take rest days when you need it but if I actually took this advice, I would just never run. When I run after work, I always feel something. The first 10 minutes of every run is basically just determining whether that feeling will plateau or get worse. So why do people say this? Running does not feel good!
You've misunderstood the point of that saying entirely.
Listening to someone doesn't mean that you just always follow everything they're saying without any deliberation of your own... it means you take what they're saying into account.
Just like you have to negotiate and balance several different things in terms of intensity vs volume, running is a continuous negotation and balance between your mind and body.
Sometimes you have to push through the fatigue and mind signals telling you to slow down or stop (like during workouts, races). Sometimes you should listen and back off otherwise you'll get injured. It's up to -you- to fine tune and find that knife's edge balance and strike the sweetspot.
This is just inconsequential banter, but if I would make a point here it would the obvious one, that there are any number of things that I do that you don't/wouldn't/coudn't/would complain about. And vice versa. I don't know what they are because I don't know you, but there will be very many, including a load of running ones. It's obvious, you already know that, as everyone does, but these things seem to get forgotten when the rant brain takes over.
I always hear this advice of "listen to your body" and take rest days when you need it but if I actually took this advice, I would just never run. When I run after work, I always feel something. The first 10 minutes of every run is basically just determining whether that feeling will plateau or get worse. So why do people say this? Running does not feel good!
You've misunderstood the point of that saying entirely.
Listening to someone doesn't mean that you just always follow everything they're saying without any deliberation of your own... it means you take what they're saying into account.
Just like you have to negotiate and balance several different things in terms of intensity vs volume, running is a continuous negotation and balance between your mind and body.
Sometimes you have to push through the fatigue and mind signals telling you to slow down or stop (like during workouts, races). Sometimes you should listen and back off otherwise you'll get injured. It's up to -you- to fine tune see details and find that knife's edge balance and strike the sweetspot.