a) try to spot patterns of food/liquid consumption in the couple of hours before running that trigger them.
b) if you spot a stitch coming on, deliberately drop your running speed to a "this is easy" rate, without actually stopping. But you have to spot it coming on for this to be really effective.
c) if your stitch is just under the ribs on the right hand side, it may be a breathing-in-sync-with-your-pacing thing. Basically, when the right hand leg/hip crunches the liver up into the diaphragm and this happens in sync with your breathing trying to push the diaphragm down, the diaphragm gets narked and starts whinging.
In theory, the trick here is to break up your breathing pattern, or switch sides (breathing out on the left foot? - now breathe out on the right foot), or slow your breathing rate down so that it hits alternate foot-strikes.
In practice, I find that if I start trying to think about breathing out of sync with my foot-strikes, my brain gives up completely at the complexity of it, and I'm lucky if I don't run into a lamp-post or tie my legs in a tangle and wind up in a heap on the floor. But it's a nice theory 8-)
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Date: 2008-11-26 09:36 am (UTC)a) try to spot patterns of food/liquid consumption in the couple of hours before running that trigger them.
b) if you spot a stitch coming on, deliberately drop your running speed to a "this is easy" rate, without actually stopping. But you have to spot it coming on for this to be really effective.
c) if your stitch is just under the ribs on the right hand side, it may be a breathing-in-sync-with-your-pacing thing. Basically, when the right hand leg/hip crunches the liver up into the diaphragm and this happens in sync with your breathing trying to push the diaphragm down, the diaphragm gets narked and starts whinging.
In theory, the trick here is to break up your breathing pattern, or switch sides (breathing out on the left foot? - now breathe out on the right foot), or slow your breathing rate down so that it hits alternate foot-strikes.
In practice, I find that if I start trying to think about breathing out of sync with my foot-strikes, my brain gives up completely at the complexity of it, and I'm lucky if I don't run into a lamp-post or tie my legs in a tangle and wind up in a heap on the floor. But it's a nice theory 8-)