{"id":16788,"date":"2014-06-27T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=16788"},"modified":"2014-06-27T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:45:16","slug":"fitness-friday-cramping-my-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2014\/06\/fitness-friday-cramping-my-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Friday: Cramping My Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"New<\/a>I had an alright week with running. \u00a0Definitely one of those times where I could have done more.<\/p>\n

Monday I went out for an afternoon run and it was horrible. \u00a0My left shin cramped up pretty badly which then caused my calf to start cramping as well. \u00a0UGH \u00a0I had to stop 1\/2 mile in and walk the rest of the way back home. \u00a0It was another 1\/2 mile before my leg stopped cramping. \u00a0I tried stretching it out but that didn’t help at all.<\/p>\n

It was so weird! I have never had that happen before. \u00a0Yeah I have had sore shins from running but they have never seized up while running. \u00a0Strange!<\/p>\n

I took Tuesday off to give my legs a break. \u00a0I went out Wednesday morning for a run and that was much better! \u00a0I did have to stop for a walk break because my calves were getting achey. \u00a0But otherwise I was able to keep running no problem.<\/p>\n

Friday I did an afternoon run again. \u00a0The bad news is that my stupid leg cramped up again. \u00a0The good news is that it didn’t take nearly as long to recover. \u00a0I walked a bit, tried to run again and then had to stop.<\/p>\n

DAMNIT.<\/p>\n

Now I’m annoyed at the situation.<\/p>\n

My Calves are really tight and I’m wondering if it’s from\u00a0the hike I did last week<\/a>.\u00a0 The trail had a pretty steady incline on the way up and I did have to walk through a lot of snow. \u00a0I’ve been stretching them out this week and making sure I get in some bananas! \u00a0If I don’t eat a banana, I notice that my calves are more likely to start to cramp or get a charlie horse when I’m sleeping. \u00a0It’s weird I know but if I make sure to get at least a banana in during the day then my legs are fine. \u00a0I normally eat bananas mixed in with a smoothies and it definitely makes a difference! \u00a0Apparently my body needs the potassium.<\/p>\n

I just made a smoothie and used two frozen bananas! \u00a0Take that, stupid leg!<\/p>\n

I’m also going to make sure I’m well hydrated and I’m going to fiddle with the laces on my shoes to see if either of those help.<\/p>\n

My Garmin has been having trouble connecting to satellites lately. \u00a0I start it while I’m getting dressed but most days it doesn’t even connect until I’ve already started my run. \u00a0Weird. \u00a0I wonder if it’s because all the trees are full now that it’s summer? \u00a0Anyone else having trouble with their Garmin?<\/p>\n

As always, next week I will shoot to be better! \u00a0How did your week go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an alright week with running. \u00a0Definitely one of those times where I could have done more. Monday I went out for an afternoon run and it was horrible. \u00a0My left shin cramped up pretty badly which then caused my calf to start cramping as well. \u00a0UGH \u00a0I had to stop 1\/2 mile in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,52,51],"tags":[53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-4mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}