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  1. leura52

    (cont.)To test this theory, try lying down or putting your feet up to see if your legs will ‘drain’. If that’s what is happening, the strategy is to ease off when your legs get heavy: don’t stop cold, but slow right down so that your circulation can catch up. Google ‘warm down’ or ‘blood pooling’, and you might find something.

  2. leura52

    It may be gravity! When you’re running those leg muscles are demanding lots of blood (oxygen) in a hurry, and your cardio-vascular system may not be up to getting all back up your body. That swollen feeling in the calves would nomally come on as you slowed down or stopped, but maybe at your size and past inactivity it’s just going to kick in any way.

  3. mikedionne

    It could also be vibration causing numbness, but probably not on just one foot. My dad started wearing gloves when he rides his bike and they stopped going numb.