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New runner, started C25K and suffering lots of shin/ankle pain, maybe bad technique?

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I'm new to this whole running thing and it hasn't gone all that well for me, so I'm seeking some advice. 

 

Since some of my friends started C25k, I've tried joining them and have restarted the program several times, but keep having too much pain after about week 2. My shins end up hurting a lot as well as my ankles, and I couldn't really figure out what I was doing wrong since everyone I knew kept telling me that running should be easy and not painful like I was encountering. I'm not too terribly overweight (215 lbs at 6'2") so it isn't a weight issue like one of my other friends was having at 300 lbs, at least as far as I can tell.

 

I don't really have any running experience in the past. I played some little league baseball when i was a kid, and then a little bit of intramural basketball in high school. The activity i did the longest was some martial arts all the way up from 4th grade through freshman year of college. But I never really did any sports where you learn how to run effectively/correctly, so it is possible that I just might have never learned how to do it right.

 

I went to a local running shoe store to see if I was using the wrong type of shoes. The person who helped me there told me that I had a very noticeable overpronation when I walked, so he recommended me corrective shoes with support on the inside. Here's the link for them - Brooks Men's Adrelaine GTS 14 Runing Shoes. The shoes appeared to help some, but I was still running into similar pain as before (let's say an 8/10 when before it was a 10/10) in the same areas, so maybe I need a different pair of shoes.

 

I decided to see if I could figure out if I was doing things incorrectly with my running technique, so I recorded myself in slow motion on a treadmill. Here's the video footage for two different ones, one from the side and the other from the front. The front includes me walking for a short span before getting to the running-

 

Side View (0:59s mark)

Front View

 

From what I could tell in the videos, I've been landing on the outer edges of my feet before rolling the foot inwards (even more noticeable than my overpronation while walking), which I'm assuming puts excess strain on my legs and is possibly a source of why i'm running into as much pain as I do when running. 

 

What are some exercises or other things I can do to correct my technique so that I don't run into so much pain?  I'm probably going to try to see a trainer that one of my friends recommended when she kept having pain issues while running in the next few weeks, but I'm trying to gather as much information as I can from anywhere at this point in hopes of finding anything.


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