Hey all, something weird has happened. Over the course of a week I’ve become unable to run on a treadmill. I have run on treadmills since the 1990’s with never an issue. Wide ones, narrow ones, cheap & rickety ones. Drinking from a water bottle while doing 6:00 pace intervals was second nature. Now I feel like I’m “running on ice” and about to fall off when going < 12:00 per mile pace. As if I’m stepping foot on a treadmill for the first time. Something’s seriously not right!
A few weeks ago I was doing some treadmill intervals no different than I have done the past 20 years. And when I pushed the pace I felt unstable so I chalked it up to being tired. Few days later I started a moderately-hard tempo run; first few miles were fine but then this unsteadiness came back and I had to stop. It’s gotten somewhat worse, as even running slow gives me the same feeling. Almost like I’m going to trip over my own feet and have to hold on to the bar. It really sucks.
Mind you, running outside I am totally fine. No issues at all. However, I would love to be able to figure this out so I can still run inside from time to time.
I haven’t had any head trauma, no bike crashes, no change in diet, no alcohol binges, no hard drugs.....nothing. I wanted to run this by you pros before I consult a doctor who will most likely have no idea what is going on.
Here’s my only thoughts after dwelling on it for the past couple of weeks (it has really been mentally traumatizing not being able to do something that has always been second nature to me). I’m wondering if it’s due to some tiring track workouts I did recently. Maybe my lower legs are tired and causing me to become unstable. But at the same time I think a large part of it may be mental as I am having these unreasonable fears that I am going to lose balance. Does that make sense? That is all I can come up with, but it seems farfetched as I have overtrained, done hard workouts, been tired as hell, but have NEVER had an issue running easy mileage on a treadmill.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
A few weeks ago I was doing some treadmill intervals no different than I have done the past 20 years. And when I pushed the pace I felt unstable so I chalked it up to being tired. Few days later I started a moderately-hard tempo run; first few miles were fine but then this unsteadiness came back and I had to stop. It’s gotten somewhat worse, as even running slow gives me the same feeling. Almost like I’m going to trip over my own feet and have to hold on to the bar. It really sucks.
Mind you, running outside I am totally fine. No issues at all. However, I would love to be able to figure this out so I can still run inside from time to time.
I haven’t had any head trauma, no bike crashes, no change in diet, no alcohol binges, no hard drugs.....nothing. I wanted to run this by you pros before I consult a doctor who will most likely have no idea what is going on.
Here’s my only thoughts after dwelling on it for the past couple of weeks (it has really been mentally traumatizing not being able to do something that has always been second nature to me). I’m wondering if it’s due to some tiring track workouts I did recently. Maybe my lower legs are tired and causing me to become unstable. But at the same time I think a large part of it may be mental as I am having these unreasonable fears that I am going to lose balance. Does that make sense? That is all I can come up with, but it seems farfetched as I have overtrained, done hard workouts, been tired as hell, but have NEVER had an issue running easy mileage on a treadmill.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!