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@Wrongcog
It’s lovely out there! My “sorry I’m running near you” / Covid snood usually only gets deployed as I approach walkers etc but I admit I just slowed my pace and kept it on today.
I’m loving getting little blocks of 7 - 10 km done two or three times a week at the moment. It feels great to be pounding the pavement again (albeit slowly).... But. I can’t settle on a form. I think I naturally go mid to heel, but forefoot feels less jarring sometimes. I have hip, adductor and an inside knee thing - which I’m sure are all part of the same band issue and being 44. I’ve done a bit of physiotherapist stuff and am getting great relief from the YouTube runners mobility exercises someone posted up thread.. it feels good. But those little pain red flags are there after about three or four miles.
So am I best just reducing effort and distance or is this just something runners live with?
Why aren’t I a fast superhuman? Why!?