Jumpy Legs

12/19

Sitting in the car can be the worst. If the training has changed up or the workout was particularly hard, it can be down right torture. The way the legs just move underneath you but don’t go anywhere; muscles rippling uncomfortably lending to the belief of movement which is what the lower limbs really crave. They scream to stretch, to stroll, to do anything but be locked underneath you and inside an automobile. This of course is completely impossible to convey to those who are traveling with you and have never felt this uncomfortable predicament. They will look at you semi-sympathetic and semi-weirded out and maybe ask why/ what in a slightly befuddled way. I try to accept it as a fact of running, just like hot days and blisters, but all of that is more of a retrospective point of view because being subjected to “jumpy” legs is anything but out of mind. I mean can you forget about having shiatsu done to you? Just another part of the runner’s burden I guess.