Cramp!

[Mud]

Placebo tablets.

Taken with a pinch of salt?

[freakazoid]

Doesn't drinking shed loads of water result in you pissing it all out again along with lots of salt? (??someone will know??)

[shadbolt]

what do people use to stop cramp?

Run more miles and climb more hills. There's a lot of nonsense talked about drinking stuff and taking funny tablets to ward off cramp but at the end of the day if you aren't fit enough and your muscles aren't conditioned properly for whatever you are trying to undertake then you will get cramp.

[Man from Del Monte]

But, i think there is definetly something more too it...i know joss naylor used to get cramp and he wasnt exactly unfit was he!

now come on, if Joss got cramp it would be after 100 miles at least!!!

[Al Fowler]

now come on, if Joss got cramp it would be after 100 miles at least!!!

I think he got it in his back more than anything.

[stevefoster]

now come on, if Joss got cramp it would be after 100 miles at least!!!

Read somewhere that Joss was prone to cramp, think some folk just are, never stopped him though, in fact nowt has.
Just experiment with stuff, nuuns tablets work for me

[ukhursty]

To combat cramp I usually shout a variety of French words, an convince myself that continuing to run is the only option....hurts but works

[Overthehill]

I agree fitness is the key issue, however, on those long hot days popping a Nuun tablet in my water bottle does the trick for me. Nuun tablets have a good mix of essential salts and viitamins.

OTH

[injury advice]

try a good natural massage gel / oil to massage legs before & after runs along with good pre warm up & post cool down, go and se a good sports & remedial massage therapist

[Al Fowler]

try a good natural massage gel / oil to massage legs before & after runs along with good pre warm up & post cool down, go and se a good sports & remedial massage therapist

I have regular massage...and still get cramp.