I have increased the type and intensity of my running workouts while keeping my lifting workouts more or less the same and have noticed that my knees and sometimes what feels like the very tops of my shin bones are often sore when I do a deadlift and/or squat workout the day after a hard running workout.
My knees are never sore during a run; it's always when I try to lift heavy the day after a hard run that I notice the soreness. Sometimes the soreness goes partially to mostly away during my warm up lifting sets, but it usually doesn't go completely away. The soreness is usually gone if it has been a few days between a running workout and a squat/deadlift workout, but I normally don't take days off like that. The problem is more apparent with deadlifts than squats. Maybe that is because my knees are almost over my toes in a conventional deadlift, but not a squat?
Currently, my runs consist of either 2-3 miles worth of intervals on a track, or 3-6 miles worth of running on streets/sidewalks. These runs usually have a fair number of hills involved, some of them quite long/steep. Prior to this I was only running on a flat treadmill at a constant pace and never really noticed this soreness. I have been following the new routine for a few months now and the knee soreness hasn't really gotten any worse over that time. The track intervals are a more recent addition and seemed to make the soreness worse, particularly the most recent time when we had to run on the track's underlying pavement because the surface had been stripped in preparation for replacement.
I run 3 days per week and lift 3 days per week, alternating a day of running with a day of lifting. Lifting workouts are full body.
Is this something I should be worried about? Is there any way to keep doing both compound lifts and road running without having knee soreness? It seems that most/all runners I run with don't lift, and most of the people I know who lift don't like to run, so I haven't been able to get much useful feedback from the people I normally train with.
My knees are never sore during a run; it's always when I try to lift heavy the day after a hard run that I notice the soreness. Sometimes the soreness goes partially to mostly away during my warm up lifting sets, but it usually doesn't go completely away. The soreness is usually gone if it has been a few days between a running workout and a squat/deadlift workout, but I normally don't take days off like that. The problem is more apparent with deadlifts than squats. Maybe that is because my knees are almost over my toes in a conventional deadlift, but not a squat?
Currently, my runs consist of either 2-3 miles worth of intervals on a track, or 3-6 miles worth of running on streets/sidewalks. These runs usually have a fair number of hills involved, some of them quite long/steep. Prior to this I was only running on a flat treadmill at a constant pace and never really noticed this soreness. I have been following the new routine for a few months now and the knee soreness hasn't really gotten any worse over that time. The track intervals are a more recent addition and seemed to make the soreness worse, particularly the most recent time when we had to run on the track's underlying pavement because the surface had been stripped in preparation for replacement.
I run 3 days per week and lift 3 days per week, alternating a day of running with a day of lifting. Lifting workouts are full body.
Is this something I should be worried about? Is there any way to keep doing both compound lifts and road running without having knee soreness? It seems that most/all runners I run with don't lift, and most of the people I know who lift don't like to run, so I haven't been able to get much useful feedback from the people I normally train with.