Oh the pain

I've been running for the last few months. Not away from anything necessarily - just around. You know, for the fitness and the like.

I go through periods of running.

It's a funny thing. I used to get incredibly bored just running around a park or somesuch, but once you've stuck at it, even for a couple of weeks, going for a run can be quite therapeutic. When it's a nice day outside, all I really want to do is go out and run around in it. It's like being eleven all over again. It makes me feel a bit like this.



Weird.

Because of all this running, I've actually started developing some sort of muscle-type substance on my legs - I suspect it may in fact be muscle, but my sources are yet to be verified.

I have also recently started playing soccer during my lunchtimes. Jolly larks etc.

However, today I went out and with my first swipe at a passing ball, did something decidely unpleasant to the muscles on my right leg (the ones on the front on the top half). Being the exceedingly brave soul that I am, I continued on, attempting to 'run it out' as footballers seem so fond of doing. In the process, I've done something equally nasty to the muscles on my left leg (again on the top half, but this time on the back).

Quite frankly, I am distinctly unimpressed. It hurts!

I'm hoping that everything will be fine tomorrow when I bound out of bed in my usual spectacular way, but I suspect this may not be the case.

So what I want to know is this: How does one stop one's legs being hurty?

Over to you, fitness freaks!