I entered the Stockholm Marathon on the 31st of March, I'd done the odd 5k up until then - so I'm going to be running it off the back of around 5 weeks of longer runs.
I'm under no illusions that this is ideal, and therefore I just want to finish - although I'd like to run the whole thing. I've got ~1,500km on the shoes I was running in today, which I think justifies a new pair, and I'll tell myself that the magic of new shoes will eradicate the hot spot in my right foot and defeat the left-hip Gremlins.
Would laces being too tight create a hotspot on the ball of the foot?
Certainly possible that they are too tight - since it was suggested that my purple toe-nail was potentially caused by my laces being too loose I've been doing them up tighter than I used.
I entered the Stockholm Marathon on the 31st of March, I'd done the odd 5k up until then - so I'm going to be running it off the back of around 5 weeks of longer runs.
I'm under no illusions that this is ideal, and therefore I just want to finish - although I'd like to run the whole thing. I've got ~1,500km on the shoes I was running in today, which I think justifies a new pair, and I'll tell myself that the magic of new shoes will eradicate the hot spot in my right foot and defeat the left-hip Gremlins.