Or not
After not running yesterday, I went out for an easy seven this morning and ended up with five instead. I ran the first couple of miles with David, chatting about this and that at around a 9:15 pace on the way for him to run circuit at AHS. Then I slowed it down and ran the rest of the way around the loop back to RunTex.
My shoulders are sore - actually, I’m sore all over but mostly in my upper back - but I can feel the difference my too-deep massage has made in my posture and my running form. It hurts, but it gets results like nothing else. After around four miles though I started getting an odd twinge in my left calf. I stopped and walked a minute, then ran and it returned; repeated the walk break and it stayed away for the rest of the run. I did some good stretching after I was finished, which seemed to help. Maybe I should stretch after a hard massage?
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Jan 3rd 2006
10:10 AM
I haven’t been told to stretch by my masseuse, before. I have been told that after a hard, deep tissue massage, you need to drink LOTS of water, though.
Jan 3rd 2006
12:33 PM
The whole soreness/stretching thing puzzles me. In general, I’d say that if you aren’t tight, stretching does no good. So, the massage pain (bruising, I’d think) isn’t going to respond to stretching, but activity that gets blood there, that should help.