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ChasnotRobert
I am really bad at running.
I'm not that great at riding a bike, but compared to running, I'm highly proficient at bike riding.
When I was a teenager, I could run. I could sprint. Most of the time I didn't, but if if ever the need or mood arose, the mechanics of it worked ok.
When I was 20, I broke my left leg and ankle in several places. That took about a year to sort out, and when it was "fixed", I'd lost some of the articulation in my ankle and my left hamstring was shorter than my already short right hamstring.
For the next 20 years, I didn't run. My ankle hurt a bit off and on, and I just assumed that running would not be a sensible thing. Tbh, I was probably right. Then, about 7 years ago, I started running on a treadmill in a gym. I set myself a target of 2.4k in 10 min (the Cooper test). I achieved that, once.
Since then, I've been doing crap attempts at running short distances, off and on.
My technique is horrible. I don't really enjoy it. It's just variations on pain. The height of my aspiration is to run maybe 10k at 5 min pace. Right now, I'm running 5k at around 5.20.
A month or so ago I strained something at the top of my left leg, maybe adductor or hamstring again. Running it off or resting it doesn't seem to be working. It's just there.
What I really need to do is work properly on flexibility and technique.
Or give up.
Not sure which way this is going as yet.