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• #23277
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.
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• #23278
Sounds like you are better than you think.
5km at 25/26 minutes is already better than most of the population.Well done for going for it. If you enjoy it, or get satisfaction from it, keep going.
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• #23279
Last night I did a sprint fitness session. It was deeply unpleasant.
The last set of drills was 3 sets of 6x60m sprints with a turn at 30m. 15 seconds rest between each 60m. Max effort...My last 60m was very wobbly, black spots in the eyes, couldnt get my knees high enough, hands going white. Honestly it was horrible. But now I feel great, heavy legs etc, but its the first time since lock down where I have felt that genuine dopamine reward. Its like a little buzz improving my mood.
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• #23280
I ran myself into a Morton’s Neuroma in each foot (both removed with surgery), and constant injuries culminating in tearing my left calf, then I went to see Back on Track physio in Catford and he pointed out that I was running with my hips severely canted over to one side, we resolved that and immediately what I once considered an immutable law (that the first 3km of any run would hurt) just went away. I’d recommend speaking to Paul at BoT, or another physio that runs and understands running. Made a huge difference for me.
In other news, I went out for a relaxed 10k this morning- can you spot when I realised that the 10:30 meeting that we’d rescheduled for 12:30 was (damn these continentals!) actually 11:30 UK time?
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• #23281
I'll hazard a guess and say that it was after about 5 minutes and 31 seconds!
Did you make it back in time?
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• #23282
Yes, bang on time - even had 30 seconds to get my heart rate down a bit.
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• #23283
Thanks.
Right now, I enjoy having done it more than I do the actual event. But there have been times when I have managed to kind of like some things about the process itself.
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• #23284
immediately what I once considered an immutable law (that the first 3km of any run would hurt) just went away
thanks - that's exactly what I'm looking for. At the moment, I just tolerate a bit of pain and it either goes away after a while or it doesn't.
I'll check out running physios. Catford isn't that local but i'll go there if that's the best place.
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• #23285
Have you been secretly getting your fitness back?
That's bang out of order.
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• #23286
@ChasnotRobert I recommended Manni_o to @KarlMarx and he gave good feedback. He was based around Bank so a bit closer for you than Catford.
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• #23287
Yes! Manni is a great guy and knows his stuff. He is a proper runner and a 'proper' sports physio.
From reading your post I have a feeling he would ask you to focus more on some serious strength work as opposed to flexibility. He'd assert that most of these injuries are coming through muscle imbalances, weaknesss in certain areas that are causing certain areas to fail & give pain. After finding exactly where those weaknesses are and working on them, you should be good to go.
He is based in Bank in the week, Threadneedle St.
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• #23288
Great; thanks both.
I'll look him up when I get back to London.
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• #23289
Soz
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• #23290
This Garmin connect outage is a bit odd. Saying its "maintenance" on the connect platform but also saying their call centres are down and unable to answer calls for the same reason.
My GDPR spidey sense is tingling.
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• #23291
Hmm. Their retail web site and user forums are also down due to this "Garmin Connect Maintenance".
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• #23292
Twitter says:
Garmin
@Garmin
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We are currently experiencing an outage that affects Garmin Connect, and as a result, the Garmin Connect website and mobile app are down at this time. (1/2)
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This outage also affects our call centers, and we are currently unable to receive any calls, emails or online chats. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and apologize for this inconvenience. (2/2) -
• #23293
Yes, smells like big hack and/or some form of ransomware.
[EDIT] Or something a simple as someone forgot to renew an SSL cert and they're madly trying to unfuck things.
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• #23294
Yeah I thought the same and then realised it could just be their their datacenter and DR has borked. Oh well. Glad I dont work at Garmin.
Interesting to see some people on social media utterly losing it because they've not been able to upload today's run.
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• #23295
Garmin staff (sample size n=1) have told not to bother logging in today
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• #23296
Ha, having just posted a thinly veiled sneer at people losing their shit at Garmin on Twitter, I've just got back from a long hills session and finding myself going into Garmin Connect on my phone every five minutes to see if it is fixed yet :D
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• #23297
Yeah I want to see what weird and wonderful route I took riding over to Marylebone and back today.
Poxy Connect
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• #23298
The watch map isn't ideal
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• #23299
Ismt that just the breadcrumb rather than a map?
Just got on our Garmin scales and even those don't work. Time to panic?
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• #23300
Rumours of it on HN that it's ransomware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926289
Here we go again...
http://live.opentracking.co.uk/damianpennine20/