I'm in decent shape and ride a bike or run a combined 5-6 times a week. Have done long runs on the trail of over 13-miles the previous 4 weeks. I have gotten bad cramps in my legs a couple time a year when I have gone a really long time in the heat and gotten dehydrated. The last time that happened was about 6 weeks ago. It was real, real bad. But I drank alot of fluids, cooled down, and was playing tennis by later that afternoon.
I was on vacation last week and had a 15 hour road trip (broken up over 2 days) to get to my destination. Once there I started getting cramps in my hip flexors and quads after walking a couple hundred yards. Pain so bad I had to lay in the sidewalk till I could stretch out. This continued off and on the entire 9 days of vacation. Sometimes I could walk a little and be ok, but sometimes the cramping would set on very quickly (One day I had to crawl most of 100-yards back to where we were staying).
I got back yesterday and after feeling better, tried to hop on the bike. That lasted about 3 min before cramping in my quads set in. Stretched alot last night. I went for a very light 2.5 mile run this morning on fairly level ground. Although my legs felt rough, they didnt cramp up.
Got home this evening, stretched and rolled for a few minutes and hopped on the bike. Lasted about 5 min before cramping in my glutes set in and got pretty painful.
I've been drinking plenty of water (in my opinion). I think about 80 oz today.
This is not fun and I've never had anything like this happen before. I have several races planned for this fall and really want to get back to training soon.
Thoughts?
I was on vacation last week and had a 15 hour road trip (broken up over 2 days) to get to my destination. Once there I started getting cramps in my hip flexors and quads after walking a couple hundred yards. Pain so bad I had to lay in the sidewalk till I could stretch out. This continued off and on the entire 9 days of vacation. Sometimes I could walk a little and be ok, but sometimes the cramping would set on very quickly (One day I had to crawl most of 100-yards back to where we were staying).
I got back yesterday and after feeling better, tried to hop on the bike. That lasted about 3 min before cramping in my quads set in. Stretched alot last night. I went for a very light 2.5 mile run this morning on fairly level ground. Although my legs felt rough, they didnt cramp up.
Got home this evening, stretched and rolled for a few minutes and hopped on the bike. Lasted about 5 min before cramping in my glutes set in and got pretty painful.
I've been drinking plenty of water (in my opinion). I think about 80 oz today.
This is not fun and I've never had anything like this happen before. I have several races planned for this fall and really want to get back to training soon.
Thoughts?