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Thanks guys

3 pairs of trainers used in rotation

I guess this is still a good excuse to buy new trainers! Thanks

Yeah, I’d second binning off waterproof shoes - they just hold the water in.

The super vented engineered mesh shoes marketed for summer weather are much better as they drain as fast as they take on and dry out very fast, especially if you stick them upright behind a dehumidifier.

My favourite heavy rain shoes are Novablast LEs.

I've got a boot drier which has done sterling service on my XC spikes, running shoes, wife / kid's shoes / football boots / astro boots / waterproof boots etc etc

Well worth the £15 or whatever it was on Amazon

Waterproof running shoes are most definitely not worth having. They take ages to dry out

Anyone managed to aggravate their Achilles running - how long did it take to heal? Have been resting it a couple of weeks, but still aches and am steadily moving from pragmatic to fed up of it.

Took me months of heel lifts/drops and then weight heel lifts/drops to sort mine out. Reps morning and night. You've overloaded it, so it's a case of increasing your load tolerance level. Which means keep active or the tolerance level drops, but step back from whatever has aggravated it (in this instance, running).

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Thanks, good to know.

Calf strain last week from 400m intervals on the track. Typically it was the last interval (and all felt good up to that point).

Anyway I’m 10 days past when it happened and the calf muscle is still sore to touch - even a light pressure is painful, and painful to walk on. I’ve had a million strains and injuries over the years and I’d expect some kind of improvement over this time (even if it takes 4-6 weeks to get fully back to normal).

Are there degrees of strain? Can you do more damage than just “pull a muscle”?

Sorry to hear that - from what I’ve picked up, strains are often graded 1-3, with 1 being slight tearing of fibres and 3 being full-blown tears. You’re probably in the upper end of 1 or just about 2 by pure guesswork?

https://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/sport-injuries/muscle-strains

Obviously am not a PT, so probably better to speak to one (rather than a GP) and get a proper diagnosis and rehab.

Thanks. Despite a billion strains I wasn’t aware of the grading!

Managed to do this a while back and it took about 6 weeks to heal. Massaging the affected muscle with a massage gun was recommended and it worked to reduce the pain pretty fast although it was very painful to begin with.

Just started running again after doing this earlier this year. It took a few months.

Having built up running again this year, I tore/pulled/whatever a hamstring in August. Didn't seem too bad, pulled back the training a bit, but did run a very slow marathon, which didn't help. Been resting it for quite a while now, but the fucker still won't get better - it's getting worse, if anything. Also, I broke a toe a few weeks back accidentally kicking a cabinet while making a sandwich. That doesn't seem to be getting better in a hurry either.

This is what old is like, and it fucking sucks.

Was the sandwich nice at least?

It tasted like oh my christ this fucking hurts bet the cunt's broken

I’m staying in my sister in laws for the weekend in Fulham. I’ve a long run to do tomorrow, around 3 hours.

Battersea Park and Hyde Park are similar enough distance away. Thinking of running to one and just doing loops (my sense of direction/map skills are woeful)

Which is a nicer run?

Hyde Park, throwing in Ken Gdns and Green Park - much bigger, and plenty of different paths so you can run for hours without it getting monotonous.

Can get a bit clogged with tourists on sunny summer days, but probably not this time of year, in this weather.

Lovely, that was the original plan alright so I’ll stick to that.

Without too much extra bother you can throw in St James's Park as well - pelicans, household cavalry band if you're lucky, Buckingham Palace - I used to work close by and running there at lunchtime or after work was a genuine pleasure.

Head to Putney Bridge and and out and back on the Thames Path (towards Hammersmith and beyond).

Added benefit of no getting lost.

@duncs that’s for the sports direct valorfly rec I. Finally turned up last week!

I've just turned 30 so it's time for a marathon! Have been toying with the idea a while but had been more on the bike than running until now. But this last year I've been running much more and now days are shorter will do very little cycling. I used to do county cross country at school and feel half decent, stamina is alright at least.

There's one at the end of March and I'm keen to get as close to 3 hours (maybe below?) so am working with that in mind. Currently running 60–70km/week and prioritising an interval session in the week and a long run in the weekend. Possibly a tempo run of around 5k during the week but otherwise keeping it easy.

How long should I take to do a marathon specific programme? I was thinking to try to get a bit more speed now as there are a couple of 10k races in December that I could target. Then switch the focus to marathon with a good three months to prepare for that.

Does this seem an ok strategy? I don't think the marathon training will be drastically different from the speed focus I plan this next month and a bit. Probably just that intervals will get a bit longer and do more time at lower HR than now.

Does this seem an ok strategy?

yep
sounds like you've got a decent handle on it tbh...

I'm hoping to get a London spot and will probably do similar. also on about 70km/wk at the moment and may build a little from there, but my current routine is track/intervals on Tuesdays, run into and back from work on Thursday (~11.5km each way) and then either XC or a long run at the weekend, with a few other little runs, gym or turbo scattered around