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Don’t ignore pain, listen to it. If it hurt that’s because you need to fix something. So think of what you have done that cause it. Did you change your habit? Why on this side and not the other? Did something different happened, not necessary in sport, but in your life?
Then try to change and see if you fixed the problem.
I active walk the first hundreds of meters (letting the GPS time to warm up) and run easy the first km. At the end, easy last km. That’s it.
Science shows that static stretching before is counter productive. Static stretching at the end depends on you: it can be productive or counter productive. If you feel the need, you can do it, bit if not, nothing wrong to not do it.
Maybe it can give a clue to ultrarunner hallucinations?
UNBREAKABLE: The Western States 100 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1as6CTYXI
Be careful that, with this tool, you are naturally reproducing the habits you already have. I’ve seen this tool used by Ben Vallack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBjVhJY4io&list=PLCZYyvXAdQpsEWfa6OEBOhHn48SWgneoD) and you can see, in his progression, that at first he was for no pinky stagger, and now he is for aggressive pinky stagger.
That’s an original stagger. Why?
Otherwise, beautiful board.