{"id":23937,"date":"2011-09-28T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=23937"},"modified":"2011-09-28T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:34:30","slug":"these-hips-dont-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=23937","title":{"rendered":"These Hips Don’t Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes I feel like I am walking on a tightrope when it comes to running. I miss the days when I could “just go for a run” and the idea of injury <\/a>wasn’t even on my radar. I just ran. I ran for fitness, I ran for training, I ran for fun, I ran to work out frustrations or bad moods. Now? After injury I am much more cautious. Injury is in the back of my mind when I run. Whatever aches and pains I feel I start to over-analyze.<\/p>\n

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In 2011 I’ve kept my mileage down to prevent any future IT Band issues. Now I’m wondering if keeping the mileage down has caused me to be MORE sore after I run. Not keeping up with consistent mileage means I’m starting over with each run. Instead of having conditioning that makes mileage easier, I think I might be doing something detrimental instead.<\/p>\n

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This thought came to me when I was laying in bed feeling every ache in my lower body. My hips felt angry. They weren’t injured, it weren’t painful, they were just reminding me “Hey, we ache.” Thanks, Hips, for the reminder.<\/p>\n

Recently I started to wonder: are some bodies just not made to be runners?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I like to believe that I can do anything. I think that with proper training and conditioning anyone can do what they set their mind to. But is it possible that maybe my body type<\/a> just isn’t going to be running friendly<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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And that brings me to another question: if in fact some people’s bodies just aren’t meant for running should they do it anyway? Or is that just asking for\u00a0unnecessary\u00a0trouble?<\/p>\n

So if my body type is just not meant for running, do I stop? Give it all up even if I love it and miss it? Or do I keep doing it but keep my mileage down in hopes of avoiding injury? By keeping the mileage down you get a touch<\/em>\u00a0of the running but not enough to cause issue. I guess everything in moderation<\/strong>, right?<\/p>\n

I talk about moderation all the time. Instead of eating a whole piece of cheesecake every single day of the week I split a piece once in awhile. Is that the same? Not really. Isn’t that better than nothing? Or is it? If I only get one bite<\/em> of running once in awhile is that enough to satisfy me or should I be pushing myself harder?<\/p>\n

Cross-training has done wonders for my healing. Swimming is also a good way for me to stretch and use different muscles than I do running.\u00a0I thought my “stop running for 2 months” doctor advice last year was a death sentence–the end of the world. Instead it gave me the opportunity to try new things–weight lifting–and change my body for the better. That injury also taught me the value of stretching. I am so much better at stretching after each workout, I go to yoga classes more often than once or twice a year. Good lessons I needed to learn.<\/p>\n

As it stands now I have been considering training for a 5k or 8k race. It’s getting into that time of year when I won’t be able to bike to work much and there aren’t any cycling events until Spring. Without something to train for I feel a little lost. I’m not sure if I want to sign up for a road race because of all these thoughts that are circling around in my brain.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Do you think some bodies are just not made for running?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I feel like I am walking on a tightrope when it comes to running. I miss the days when I could “just go for a run” and the idea of injury wasn’t even on my radar. I just ran. I ran for fitness, I ran for training, I ran for fun, I ran to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,43,101,138,148,318,1335,2625,1663,224,1468,260,267,277,291,299,308],"tags":[4570,8636,4571,4568,4573,8707,4569,8810,4572,4567],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/funny-celebrity-pictures-these-hips-dont-lie.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23937"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24122,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23937\/revisions\/24122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}