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 Alan Morris 1
Posted: 10/02/04 06:26:59 59
Message: Simple and well documented answer (i'm qulaified fitness trainer). Rob is right - its the venous return - basically you hammer for hours then, instead of cooling down so the calves (often called the "little heart") can do their best to pump all the rapidly pooling blood back up against gravity you stop abrubtly and have a chat. Calves go "f**k this" and give up and the blood just rests on the non-return valves progresively making the viens more stuffed as time goes on.
No-one knew about cooling down ages ago and so just sprinted for home/the cafe and collapsed in a heap. Looks like they are normally ugly rather than a concern as true Varicose viens are - but if in doubt - check it out - you shouldnt get 'em if you cool down and arent susectible anyway
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