Oh the pain!!!!

Harry B
Harry B Posts: 1,239
edited November 2009 in The bottom bracket
Today's top tip

Do not under any circumstances take part in a duathlon without doing any training for the run. My calf muscles are in agony :cry:

The cycling part was fine but the running was a killer :?
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Why in god's name would you do a thing like that??
  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    keef66 wrote:
    Why in god's name would you do a thing like that??

    Dunno. It seemed a good idea at the time and I thought that broadly speaking the muscles would be the same :?

    <y fitness was fine which meant that I kept on going even though my legs were ripping apart :cry:

    Oh well. I'll know for next time :roll:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Oohhh no, the running bit is cheeky if you don't train. Your legs don't feel like they belong to you and you are running very slowly. Stick to cycling, much better. :wink:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    You haven't experienced pain until you go to the loo before a race and forget to wash the hot sportsbalm from your hands first. To compound the agony I suggest then rubbing the tears from your eyes :oops:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Pross wrote:
    You haven't experienced pain until you go to the loo before a race and forget to wash the hot sportsbalm from your hands first. To compound the agony I suggest then rubbing the tears from your eyes :oops:

    Yoinks.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Harry B wrote:

    Dunno. It seemed a good idea at the time and I thought that broadly speaking the muscles would be the same :?
    :

    :lol::lol: I tried running for the first time in 20 odd years on on that principle - I ride a lot, my CV and recovery are good, how much different can it be?'

    :oops: After 3/4 of a mile I was gasping, after a mile I wanted to die and after 2 I was on my knees throwing up and on the mobile to the Mrs to come and scoop me into the car. :oops:

    never again
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    dmclite wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    You haven't experienced pain until you go to the loo before a race and forget to wash the hot sportsbalm from your hands first. To compound the agony I suggest then rubbing the tears from your eyes :oops:

    Yoinks.

    You don't do it a second time I can assure you, just like you learn to shave your legs a couple of days before using that stuff. I'm sure it must be an illegal substance.
  • drewfromrisca
    drewfromrisca Posts: 1,165
    Hey Harry B don't say we didn't warn you!!! :lol:
    There is never redemption, any fool can regret yesterday...

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  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    drewfromrisca wrote:
    Hey Harry B don't say we didn't warn you!!! :lol:

    Yes, I was warned both on this site and others as well. But of course I just ignored it 8)

    On the plus side I can almost walk again (although I still have to take stairs one step at the a time). With a bit of luck I should be back on my bike tomorrow or maybe Thursday :D

    I'll probably burn the running shoes at the weekend. But then again I reckon I could get my time down a bit :roll:
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  • geoff_ss
    geoff_ss Posts: 1,201
    Being fit can play against you when you have a go at a different activity.

    I recall taking part in a department badminton evening when I hadn't played myself for a long time. I was very cycling fit at the time and ran around like a madman all evening - I suffered the following morning and thought my right arm would fall off :)

    Geoff
    Old cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Geoff_SS wrote:
    Being fit can play against you when you have a go at a different activity.

    I recall taking part in a department badminton evening when I hadn't played myself for a long time. I was very cycling fit at the time and ran around like a madman all evening - I suffered the following morning and thought my right arm would fall off :)

    Geoff

    I get a sore arm after just playing darts for the first time in a long time! Or last weekend I didn't run or cycle, and just played on the Wii for the first time in ages and had a couple of hours skiing at a snow dome, I felt shocking for a couple of days after!

    I'm generally fine with my legs it's upper body stuff!

    Harry, was it the Ballbuster you did?
  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    hammerite wrote:
    Geoff_SS wrote:
    Being fit can play against you when you have a go at a different activity.

    I recall taking part in a department badminton evening when I hadn't played myself for a long time. I was very cycling fit at the time and ran around like a madman all evening - I suffered the following morning and thought my right arm would fall off :)

    Geoff



    Harry, was it the Ballbuster you did?

    Hillingdon Tri Club Autumn Duathlon. A good well organised event. Harry Junior did the kids event but sadly crashed coming into the transition :(
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Ah OK, those look interesting. Jnr Hammer has raced his bike at Hillingdon (will probably be there for some of the Imperial Winter races) so I'm sure would like to do that, and I've done tri before, so should be able to do a duathlon. Will keep an eye out for the Spring races.

    Hope Harry Jnr is ok after the crash.
  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    hammerite wrote:
    I've done tri before, so should be able to do a duathlon. Will keep an eye out for the Spring races.

    Hope Harry Jnr is ok after the crash.

    Be sure to get some running practice in first :wink:

    Harry Jnr is fine. We were joking about it later. I told him that I thought he was so alarmed at seeing his Dad suffer that he crashed deliberately so that he could miss the last run :shock: He's got some nasty road rash on his knees but I'm sure he'll be back
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    I feel unhealty when I run, even fat people can beat me, I get beaten up to stairs too all the time. I was watching fat camp the other day, these fat people that weightd in at over 20 stone did a mile run, it was hilly too in 20mins.
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    I can run about a mile, but that's it.

    Any further than that and i'll get my bike.
    Neeermad
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Harry B wrote:

    Be sure to get some running practice in first :wink:

    Harry Jnr is fine. We were joking about it later. I told him that I thought he was so alarmed at seeing his Dad suffer that he crashed deliberately so that he could miss the last run :shock: He's got some nasty road rash on his knees but I'm sure he'll be back

    Glad to hear he's not too bad.

    I got into cycling through running so I should be OK, making an assault on my ancient half marathon PB at the weekend - long overdue.
  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    hammerite wrote:
    Harry B wrote:

    Be sure to get some running practice in first :wink:

    Harry Jnr is fine. We were joking about it later. I told him that I thought he was so alarmed at seeing his Dad suffer that he crashed deliberately so that he could miss the last run :shock: He's got some nasty road rash on his knees but I'm sure he'll be back

    Glad to hear he's not too bad.

    I got into cycling through running so I should be OK, making an assault on my ancient half marathon PB at the weekend - long overdue.

    Good luck. When was the last time you did any running?

    By way of a warning my legs are just starting to slowly recover. I went for a walk at lunchtime and I still look like I've got wooden legs and hips but it is getting better :oops:
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,551
    Harry B wrote:

    By way of a warning my legs are just starting to slowly recover. I went for a walk at lunchtime and I still look like I've got wooden legs and hips but it is getting better :oops:

    From previous experience, the sore legs recover a lot quicker if you go out for a gentle spin on the bike.

    I learnt this the hard way after getting roped into a running event through work. I did no training, ran 7 kms and could hardly walk the next day. Went for a ride the next morning and the legs were much better after that.
  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    andyp wrote:
    Harry B wrote:

    By way of a warning my legs are just starting to slowly recover. I went for a walk at lunchtime and I still look like I've got wooden legs and hips but it is getting better :oops:

    From previous experience, the sore legs recover a lot quicker if you go out for a gentle spin on the bike.

    I learnt this the hard way after getting roped into a running event through work. I did no training, ran 7 kms and could hardly walk the next day. Went for a ride the next morning and the legs were much better after that.

    I was hoping to get back to my commuting but I have an external meeting tomorrow which rules it out for tomorrow at least :cry:
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Harry B wrote:

    Good luck. When was the last time you did any running?

    By way of a warning my legs are just starting to slowly recover. I went for a walk at lunchtime and I still look like I've got wooden legs and hips but it is getting better :oops:

    Thanks, I actually run a reasonable amount (about 800 miles so far this year), just not raced a half marathon for a long time - I've raced plenty of other distances though.

    I agree with Andy, you will ache, but by actually doing a little bit more a day or so after actually helps to loosen you back up a bit.

    If you plan to do these again, get comfortable with running by itself in training. Then once you are introduce some back to back (brick) sessions, long ride/short run, short bike/long run. I've only done tri so not had to run then bike, so it might be worth doing some run/bike bricks for a duathlon as well as bike/run.

    It helps massively when it comes to racing. There's nothing worse than getting off the bike and having to run, when you aren't used to it, your legs feel like jelly!!
  • TheTalkingTurboTrainer
    TheTalkingTurboTrainer Posts: 916
    Pross wrote:
    You haven't experienced pain until you go to the loo before a race and forget to wash the hot sportsbalm from your hands first. To compound the agony I suggest then rubbing the tears from your eyes :oops:

    I can relate. I had a dodgey groin before a rugby game one year so rubbed liniment in. :shock:

    Nobody can say that my level of on field aggression during that game was missing! :twisted:
    Vive les All Blacks!!! [:D]
  • ozzzyosborn206
    ozzzyosborn206 Posts: 1,340
    you think your legs hurts after running? try playing football the short sharp changes of pace and twisting and turning put me out of action for days after a season of purely cycling, as for pain the worst i think i have had is chillie sauce called da bomb or something stuck under my finger nail then when i put my contact lenes in the next day i wanted to rip my eyeball out

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