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and a little massage

Shane Cultra
April 22, 2025

Top I run about 50 miles a week and lift 4 hrs a week. These two, combined with my age takes a toll on my body. Every week, without fail, I get a deep tissue massage. Not the spa kind where they light candles and throw hot stones on your back. I’m talking about the kind where they dig into your calves until your toes twitch and you have to remind yourself to go to your happy place. He’s standing on his elbow

People ask if it’s worth it the $80-100 a week. The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that it keeps me running. Keeps me moving. Keeps me pain free.

When you’re logging double-digit miles day after day, your legs don’t bounce back like they used to. Recovery isn’t passive anymore. I can stretch, hydrate, eat right—but none of that gets into the tissue like a good massage does. Even with stretching I can’t get to most of the areas I need to get. Massage flushes out the junk: lactic acid, inflammation, all that tightness that builds up and starts moving me from sore to in pain.

Massage gives me that reset. It doesn’t mean I’m magically fresh the next day, but I’m not limping around like a 90-year-old who can’t put his socks on. As a matter of fact, I am exhausted after a massage and have to drink a half gallon of water to help flush things.

I’d rather pay a massage therapist now than a physical therapist later. I’ve been down the injury road—plantar fasciitis, IT band pain, tight hips that pull everything else out of whack. When I skip massages, I get so tight I greatly increase my chance of getting injured.

Weekly work keeps those little issues from turning into big ones. Tight calves? Handled. Glutes not firing? Fixed before it becomes a problem. For me the biggest problem is hip flexors. They are center of all movement and damn to mine get tight.

The physical stuff is obvious, but there’s something else: the mental break. For one hour a week, I’m not thinking about anything. I’m just lying there, letting someone else do the work. There’s pain, sure. But there’s also calm. And when I walk out, I feel like I’ve hit the reset button—and ready to begin another hard week of training.

The reality is I don’t feel I actually have a choice. I either tend to my body weekly or I break down and get the non choice 2 month rest that everyone else seems to find. If I want to keep logging miles, chasing PRs, and doing this for the long haul, I have to take care of the machine. And for me, that means handing the keys to a massage therapist once a week and letting them do what they do best: keep me running. And every domain I sell gets me a few more years of massage