Hi!
I recently re-started running again for the 8475th time. I had about a 4 month break this last time.
Starting in February, after running only 1.5 - 2miles my arch started cramping up badly. After this happened twice the cramp stuck around for weeks whether I ran or not. I even resorted to wearing my custom orthotics for a few weeks just to ease the pain while I used a roller, ice and did some strengthening exercises. The pain cleared up about 6 weeks ago so I've slowly re-started running.
I've been run/walking super short intervals (wearing VFF's, not totally BF these days) for the past few weeks. Today I increased my intervals to 2min run, 1min walk and the cramping came back halfway through (I run/walked a total 45 mins), it would ease up on the walk intervals so I just pushed through and finished. The pain went away completely after the run and right now I feel fine.
So, my question is - was I right or wrong to push through? Should I shorten the run intervals again? Or does the fact that the pain is gone after the run mean that I'm doing okay and I can just keep doing what I'm doing?
Thoughts?
I recently re-started running again for the 8475th time. I had about a 4 month break this last time.
Starting in February, after running only 1.5 - 2miles my arch started cramping up badly. After this happened twice the cramp stuck around for weeks whether I ran or not. I even resorted to wearing my custom orthotics for a few weeks just to ease the pain while I used a roller, ice and did some strengthening exercises. The pain cleared up about 6 weeks ago so I've slowly re-started running.
I've been run/walking super short intervals (wearing VFF's, not totally BF these days) for the past few weeks. Today I increased my intervals to 2min run, 1min walk and the cramping came back halfway through (I run/walked a total 45 mins), it would ease up on the walk intervals so I just pushed through and finished. The pain went away completely after the run and right now I feel fine.
So, my question is - was I right or wrong to push through? Should I shorten the run intervals again? Or does the fact that the pain is gone after the run mean that I'm doing okay and I can just keep doing what I'm doing?
Thoughts?