u/Realistic-Version528 — reddlx

Smart AI?

I usually ignore Strava’s terrible AI summaries, but this one caught my eye. I ran a race for the second year in a row, which I mentioned in my sub-caption. What I never wrote about was the fact that I beat my time from last year by almost 2mins. I never uploaded last year’s race to my Strava profile. Somehow Strava AI picked up on this detail and added it into my summary.

Does anyone know exactly how this works?

My Strava profile:
https://strava.app.link/l81IIhwtv4b

u/Realistic-Version528 — 1 day ago

▲ 1 r/RunningInjuries

Physical Therapy

Seeking advice from any PT runners!!

About a month ago, I felt a pinching pain in my upper right leg that would then throb and ache for days after a run. I could still run with the pain and even PR’d a 5k at 21:02 with the pain. I had rested and stayed off the leg for a week and a half, but the pain would come back as soon as I started running again. I had plans to start a 20 week marathon training plan this week and I did not want to risk valuable training time, so last week I decided to see if a PT could help me.

Turns out my pelvis was rotated and that was causing the pain. She has since given me stretches to increase my flexibility, workouts to increase my core strength, and taught me how to self align my pelvis.

While these interventions have stopped the pain, every time I go back and see her, I am back out of alignment. This has me hyper-fixated on aligning myself throughout the day and on runs so that I don’t have to feel that pain again (she encouraged me to stretch and re-align during runs if I feel pain). On Wednesday, I ran a half-marathon and stopped about every 1.5mi to stretch and re-align. This doesn’t feel like running to me and takes a lot of joy out of the run.

My questions are:

Is there a way to tell if I’m out of alignment? My PT said to go based on pain, but again I hyper-fixate and over analyze every muscle ache as a potential misalignment issue.
How long should I continue being seen for this issue? I feel I have the tools and knowledge to help myself now. The appts cost me $40 each visit and I’m now up to $200 out of pocket in just a week.
Would HIIT help me out in this situation? My wife has been trying to get me to go with her for months. Seeing as my PT believes I need to work on strength and flexibility, HIIT training should check these boxes and is only $20 per visit.

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u/Realistic-Version528 — 17 days ago

▲ 2 r/beginnerrunning

Muscle injury

I developed some groin pain in this area on a long run about 2 weeks ago. I pushed through and completed the run, but it has been hurting since then. The pain has gone through phases of feeling better and worse. Seems to be worse after harder runs versus easy runs.

I’ve made the decision to take off running this week, but does this just sound like a simple muscle injury and should I be stretching this muscle? Also, how do I stretch muscles in this area?

u/Realistic-Version528 — 1 month ago

▲ 12 r/runna

So I can consistently run a 5k in ~22min (7:05min/mile pace). I did recently PB at 21:16, which I’m taking into consideration when writing this.
I’m currently on a run further plan and this was today’s workout, vs what I was actually able to do.
I do think the weather (hot & windy) factored in as well, but when I got to the 3 miles at 7:30 segment, I just completely gave up and ran at the fastest pace I could, which was about 9:45/mile.

Are these paces unreasonable or am I just a wimp? 😂

u/Realistic-Version528 — 2 months ago