My legs stop me long before I am out of breath 😩 Does it go away and do you have any advice on fixing this?
Basically the title. I’ve been running 3 times a week for maybe a month and a half now by using a programme on my Garmin Watch but within the first minute the shin and calf pain kicks in. I ignore it for as long as I can and now my longest continuous distance (with a push) is 2k, which is an improvement from the 30 seconds of running I could do at the start.
For context:
- I strength train at the gym four days a week but I wouldn’t say I have been targeting anything with running in mind, because I didn’t realise that was a thing when I made my plan. Now I’m not sure what to include.
- I am overweight so that doesn’t help but I am losing weight each week.
- I went for a gait test and purchased some Saucony Hurricanes which have helped a lot but the pain persists.
- I know people say do easy zone 2 runs… but I’ve been keeping my pace slow, my fastest kilometre was 08:05 but that killed my legs and I couldn’t do a second kilometre. I usually sit somewhere in pace between 09:00 and 10:00 and that puts me in zone 3 🙈. Zone 2 is a fast walk for me 😬
I’m working on being able to run 5k without stopping and I just know that if I could reduce the pain I could go a lot further.
Thanks for reading ❤️