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Good outlook, wish I could recognize the process as much as the outcome as well as you do!
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Sorry to hear that but, as you say, there are positives to be taken from it. There will be plenty of other events to do in the future.
I made some mistakes: a late shoe swap might have contributed to the injury.
I generally have 3 pairs of running shoes on the go at any one time:
- relatively new
- middle aged
- relatively old
I swap between them regularly (especially if one pair gets wet) but mainly so I get to feel the differences in cushioning. When I start noticing the cushioning going in the oldest pair, or the tread starting to fall off, I start looking for a new pair in the sales. When I eventually find them, order them, and they arrive they become the new pair and everything shuffles down the list. The old pair then go to shoe recycling.
New shoes are used for a few shorter runs first just to make sure there isn't some oddity/defect that will rip my feet to shreds on a long run.
It costs a little more up front (since you have to buy shoes sooner than you would normally) but doesn't cost any more in the long run (no pun intended) since each pair of shoes still get used until they shouldn't be run in any more (which is entirely subjective). Knowing you've always got dry shoes to run in is also a nice psychological boost.
FWIW a pair of my preferred non-trail shoe (Saucony Jazz [not the retro/fashion version]) lasts about 750km before they get recycled. My preferred trail shoes (Saucony Peregrine) are all still going at 800km+, I don't think I've had to retire a pair of them yet.
- relatively new
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They are good lessons to learn. Can you defer your race entry at all?
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a late shoe swap might have contributed to the injury
Same model?
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Whatever happened to the folly of youth & enthusiasm? Get drunk, stay up late, smash a pb and hang the consequences!
Only kidding, hope you're back on it soon.
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So I don't think it's going to happen for me, left shin is in a fair amount of pain and it very much feels like one of those injuries that would get worse if I dragged myself around 21km. Pretty annoying for it to happen in the final week, it had gone really well up until then, only missed 2 runs for illness. I made some mistakes: a late shoe swap might have contributed to the injury. I was getting nervous about how worn my road shoes were getting and as the distance and intensity was increasing I thought it might be an injury risk, whoops. Also probably ran my last long run too hard.
Never mind though, I started the training plan to build some fitness, get into a routine and challenge myself a bit. It was as much about the process as the event itself. Nice to get a 10k pb out of it too!