Running

I was up in Clacton for the weekend with the family. Ran Harwich parkrun yesterday in 19.10, and took mini me out on her bike this morning for a bit. We had to abort that as she was a bit cold. Luckily the Clacton Wetherspoons was on hand to revive her with a cheap hot chocolate.

Not sure how I ever managed sub 18 5k or 36.26 for 10k. Still, it's all moving in the right direction.

@dubkev, is kiddy cycling / you running a possibility?

does anyone want some barely worn New Balance 860 shoes? I bought them a few years ago, they didn't really fit my narrow feet so i stuck them in the cupboard.

US 10, UK 9.5, Euro 44

I'm after some beer and crisps in exchange, to keep the monkey on my back. photos here - https://photos.app.goo.gl/2NQWjUFVAKZ4RjuMA

I’ll take em if you’re willing to post. Chuck you a few quid.

definitely. send me a message and we'll do the deal. I've got to go to the post office tomorrow as it happens

Pushing my distance up a little (per chart), at the end of todays run the ball of my right foot was feeling very hot - with a slight feeling of pressure between the joints. Run through it?

I'm just concerned as my marathon was fatally compromised when a very similar hotspot turned into a focussed pain point which forced me to run/walk/run/walk the second half.

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I get similar pain occasionally. IANAP so usual interwebz advice disclaimer...

Possibly this:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/mortons-neuroma/

Else could be old/tight trainers, lacing, scrunching toes, splaying toes, or tightness elsewhere causing referred pain...

Try stretching / working toes daily (teatowel scrunches may help?). If it's more than an annoyance see a physio (or podiatrist as nhs advises).

I've had a Mortons neuroma removed from both feet - in through the top, cut out, stitched up and crutches for a few weeks.

I'd really like to believe that it's not coming back.

Trainers are new and fitted in the running shop, so I'm going to hope its tightness elsewhere.

To the physio!

I had something similar, a friend who is a podiatrist gave my foot a squeeze and it clicked which apparently is an indicator, but a scan at the hospital came back negative.

I think I had a couple of weeks off and loosened my shoes. It's been alright since, although I feel it from time to time. Not too bad though.

as an aside, my race tonight was officially my slowest ever on the course. ho hum

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Trainers are new and fitted in the running shop

This does not necessarily mean it's not the shoe. Are you running lots on road? I find hot spots are more common from the continual hard, flat terrain, and much less likely to happen on trails.

Could just be the sock bunching up a bit, could be a bit of grit under the insole, etc to cause a hot spot. Rule out the simple things first.

Almost exclusively on the road. I'll investigate the shoes/socks.

Very much preferable to another foot operation.

Also if you do every run in the same pair of shoes if could be worth mixing it up a bit so the pressure isn't exactly the same each time.

Do you think I'm made of money?!

Two pairs of shoes!

Do you think I'm made of money?!

Yes, I do.

I could probably afford two pairs of shoes it is true. However, I currently don't have enough room for pair 2.

However, I currently don't have enough room for pair 2.

Said no runner, ever.

I've got 10 bikes, and no self control.

Internet bullying.

Less than four weeks to Frankfurt and finally proper marathon training is starting to feel comfortable. 19 miles total yesterday, including 5 miles easy am, then evening interval session with added tempo; 2M @ 5:40, then straight into 20x400 (100 recovery), all 76-78s. I'm not kidding myself that 5:40 felt like marathon pace but it was a lot more comfortable than I was expecting. 10 miles easy planned for this evening, then I should have a better idea about what "MP" might actually be after tomorrow when I attempt more laps of Sutcliffe Park, hopefully for 12 miles fast, and ~21 for the day.

Good work!

20x400 (100 recovery)

Ugh.

Tired just reading this!

Just throw them on top of the pile in the garage?

@philpub do you program this interval stuff into a watch or just have amazing concentration?! Or was it at the track thinking about it...
I’m at a point where I want to start doing some intervals but not sure how I’ll remember what length, pace I’m trying to keep.

Yes, at the track. Last night I was just following the person in front! We get pretty good numbers of runners of similar pace, which really helps. I think I've got good pace judgment generally, although for reps longer than 400 I tend to have "lap time" showing on the Garmin, which I might check after 200, then every lap; or I just run to feel and it's usually pretty consistent anyway. You need to concentrate when the "A group" run past doing their 400's in 65 or something. Oof!

The track is the obvious place for interval training, but even if it's not at the track I find it a lot easier to do reps over a defined route, rather than programming into a watch, so that you've got a defined end point to aim for. I've got various non-track venues that I use for a change of scenery and/or for longer reps or tempo sessions where I think too much track-bend running might be a bad idea. Measure out standard distances, e.g. mile/km, or just random distances if laps are more convenient. (Off the top of my head, Sutcliffe Park = 0.85 miles, Dulwich Park = 1.05 miles, Millwall Park = 0.5 miles, Greenwich Park flat figure-of-8 loop = 1.2 miles, etc.)

As boring as it is, laps is the way to do intervals. We don't have a track in running distance but fortuitously there's a flat grass park which measures out at 400m, it's a bit uneven but it's better than nothing.