Muscle soreness

I am in Texas as well and the recent weather (allergy, warmer weather and humidity) definitely make running a bit harder. But I am not experiencing any kind of muscle soreness, just run a tad slower on my daily runs (10-15 sec./mi slower). So, I am not sure what is your issue.

You're getting old, my friend. Join the club.

i know wrote:

You're getting old, my friend. Join the club.

At 38? I set PRs at 1500 - H/M last year and my easy run pace was improving during the last few month and it is like all of a sudden, this start to happen (after a sinus infection caused by allergy). There might be some co-relationship, but I want to recover back to where I was several weeks ago - not when I was in the 20s....

Any gray hair?

i know wrote:

Any gray hair?

None so far. But what does that to do with the sudden muscle soreness?

Any constructive recommendations/ideas other than I am old?

Your advancing age is a prime indicator of the onset of early morning muscle soreness. As long as you remain active, you can expect some of this. The good news is it is much worse for couch potatos. Continue to run, but modify your expectations. The occasional Tylenol won't hurt either.

Get zero carb isopure drink at GNC, drink some before/during your longer runs, maybe mix with gatorade, etc. 50/50. Drink the remainder after your workout. Drink ~half of the bottle immediately after your hard workouts. Give the GNC stuff a try, then order it online.

http://www.cwimedical.com/isopure-zero-carb.html?=nextag

Go to the health food store and buy zinc, magnesium and malic acid. Take 2x RDA zinc and magnesium 2 x day along with 600mg malic acid 2 x per day.

Also, vitamins C and E would not hurt either.

Just do it for 2 weeks, then you can thank me.

Isopure is basically a protein drink - but contains 40 grams of protein that you can drink while you are running and then drink quickly after you have completed your workout. Most people don't want to eat a chicken breast just after running a hard workout. Granted, it is just whey protein which you could get from drinking milk ... but you would have to drink a lot of it, and milk isn't what I want to drink during and after a hard workout.

Believe me ... just try it and you will be very pleased.

Not only are you getting old, but you're getting defensive too. 38 is old.

So, basically, most master runners will have morning muscle soreness even they only run a 7-8 mile easy run the previous day. Is that normal?

I use to get sore leg the day after a interval workout, but starting late last year, it went away. I can do my lunch time run at the same pace (with same effort) the day after a workout. So basically my fitness has improved while getting older.

In the past 2 month I have been eating less vegetables and I am not sure if this have any effect on that?

trtwrweewr wrote:

Not only are you getting old, but you're getting defensive too. 38 is old.

Yeah, right! I do not have time to argue about this, so go away!

I'm 41 going on 42, and I recently got over a 4.5 month bout with sore quads. They would get sore during easy runs, which was ridiculous.

I went to the doc and had basic blood work done (you should do this to rule a few things out), tried changes to my diet (didn't seem to help), started taking a multi-vitamin (may have helped, dunno), supplemented with iron (didn't help, didn't even affect ferritin levels), etc.

For me, the solution that came after an agonizing setback was to see a local massage therapist who has a good reputation with runners. He did active release, starting with my psoas muscles, then concentrating solely on the quads. I was all cleared up - like magic, back to normal - after 3 sessions, and did one more for good measure.

I also changed my office furniture set up, which may have been causing back misalignment.

Try to get some professional input on this. Good luck.

DOMS...delayed on-set muscle soreness.

thursday wrote:

DOMS...delayed on-set muscle soreness.

I have heard of this and experienced with it in the past, but DOMS lasting for 3 days at a time and only 30-40 min per day?

I normally feel leg sore right when getting up and it disappears within 1 hour (normally 30-40 min) and it will do this for 3-4 days and went away for a couple of days and comes back. DOMS will have a impact whenever you run, but mine is not always the case, sometimes it make the run feels harder/slower, sometimes it does not have any impact at all (providing the workout is in the afternoon).

LHS wrote:

trtwrweewr wrote:

Not only are you getting old, but you're getting defensive too. 38 is old.

Yeah, right! I do not have time to argue about this, so go away!

Alright, see ya, grandpa!

I take it you're a woman? Maybe?

Grandma*

trtwrweewr wrote:

LHS wrote:

Yeah, right! I do not have time to argue about this, so go away!

Alright, see ya, grandpa!

I take it you're a woman? Maybe?

Please leave this forum clean. and although I have seen may retart & stupid kids in my life before, you beat all of them by a lot. So congratulations!!!

trtwrweewr wrote:

Yeah, right! I do not have time to argue about this, so go away!

Alright, see ya, grandpa!

I take it you're a woman? Maybe?[/quote]

First, you did not get the idea that you are not welcome here - it is my thread anyway - Stupid #1

Second, You conflict yourself by call me grandpa and then a woman - retard and stupid.

Third, what is wrong being a woman. I will be proud if I am a woman (although I am not). Your mom and grandma are women, do you respect them less than the homeless, suicide guy that get drunk all the time. By posting this way, you are actually offending 1/2 of the population on the earth. Again, retart and extremely stupid.

Forth, I do not mind being call old if I am. Even if not, I do not mind if it can provide the right answer to the question, but it is not and you think it does - again, stupid.

Fifth, I am so glad at the age of 38, I have a grandson of your age. But, at the mean time, I am so ashamed that I have a grandson like you - it is worse than not having one at all.

If this is what you want, you got it. Nice try. (I am to humiliated to call you grandson at this moment)