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pifko
@Arducius
I had a great run on Saturday. My gf wanted to do the park run and then run home to get up to 8 miles as she's training for Reading Half so I ran the park run at my own pace then another 5 miles with her. A slight miscalculation left us with an hour walk to get home after we'd finished the 8 miles...
The park run was great (as always) but more so than usual because I ended up racing against a great runner from Team Bath. She beat me by 3 seconds and I knew there was no way I could beat her after about 3 km but she towed me around into 6th place overall and 20:02 - a new 5k PB. I didn't push right to the start at the beginning so I'll take that as a sub 20 :)
I had a terrible run on Sunday. I was supposed to be doing 18 miles but my feet are destroyed after Saturday. The tendons that pull the big toe up are really tender and walking is painful, running worse. I made it 4 miles before realising there was no way I was going to make it 18 and walked back. Really put a downer on my day :(
Some googling this morning seems to indicate I may have extensor tendonitis:
That'll be all of the above! Fortunately it looks easy to treat. Rest, change lacing pattern (or just don't tie shoes so tight), strengthening exercises, and calf stretches.
I have missed 2 long runs on the trot now which is pretty frustrating and I feel stupid for going all out at the park run. The end goal is the marathon so why am I racing a 5k? I'm entered into Reading Half and was planning to go for a good time but I've just set a new HM PB a few weeks ago so don't have anything to prove. My training plan has a 20 miler on the weekend of Reading so maybe I'll just use it as a training run and keep going after the finish.
Now I just feel stupid that it's taken this to teach me a simple lesson!