Running

Nice one rwn

First 3k I had my on-again/off-again severe shin pain, however I know it goes by kilometre 4 so I just got on with it.

Anyone got an idea as to how to make that not happen at all?

When I had shin pain back in 04 I was advised to strengthen my toes.

Some of this involved what I'll call "heel dips" on stairs, but the most fun had was using toes to scrunch up tea towels on the kitchen floor.

Seemed to help too, although hard to prove as the solution for sure.

Best to get professional advice maybe?

Finally forced myself out for a run yesterday evening, managing to miss daylight by about an hour. I started feeling really funny running along Crystal Palace Parade, and rapidly felt worse, forcing a detour into Crystal Palace station, where the attendant took one look at my face and my desperate plea to use the loo and swiped me in to the station to use the loos on Platform 1. I don’t know whether I ate something funny (given the vast array of bizarre things that I ate yesterday, I would say yes) but I emerged from the loo about a stone lighter and no longer sweating coldly. I carried on with the run, which was probably a mistake as by the time I got home I felt fucking awful and was hallucinating a little bit and ended up spending a considerable portion of last night lying on the bathroom floor.

Anyway, what all this has taught me is that we should support the tube strike. Unattended stations = having to do a poo in the park.

20 miles done yesterday, average pace 7:55. Average pace for the first 17 miles: 7:45. Average pace last 3 miles: 8:40. Ouch.

On the plus side, when I got home I ate peanut butter with a spoon and felt entirely justified.

good effort.

My long run on Sunday turned into a long slow walk as Saturday's post x country re-fuelling strategy took its toll.

I also took the decision to not do a marathon this spring as I can't get enough miles in. Aiming for a 75 half and guaranteed start for London next year now...

Oh hai, Running thread, long time no post.
Started doing this Runkeeper 8wks to a 5k training plan.
Today was a 1.5mile run/walk, slow to find out how you're going.
Ran round a soggy/waterlogged park in feltham and my thighs feel crushed. Inner part above the knee aches ALOT
Got the 15mile commute home, and am hoping it doesn't compromise that.

Hoping that even though I'm going to ride in tomorrow, it can still be classed as a rest day.

Got interval runs on wednesday, followed by same 1.5mile slow run/walk that I did today on friday.

Once the 8wks are over will be doing some park runs, a couple of times a month, but don't want to get in front of myself..

Hypothetically speaking of course, is it likely that that I would get in trouble/be kicked out of a race if I used someone else's number, if that number is clearly meant for someone who is male and fast and I am neither?

More of a problem if done the other way round, I.e. top guy wins womens race using female friends number. Would cause a shit storm for the organisers future event insurance etc if you collapse & die running as someone else too.

It (the giving away of otherwise unused numbers) happens lots though.

p.s. definitely worth contacting organiser to see if they'd be sympathetic to an official transfer of the number.

meant for someone who is male and fast
LOL

Nobody checks / looks, honest. It's too big an event.

I certainly hope not to collapse and die! I had a look on the race website and they say categorically no number transferring. I don't want to (hypothetically, obvs) get up at 4am and get all the way to the start line only to be turned away.

TW2 - it is for someone who is male/fast, unfortunately that person is male/fat so can't do it... ha!

after yesterdays run and my 7 mile recovery run today I'm currently 382/16990 overall in the strava mts mileage challenge and 7/1721 in the fatties (200lb+) weight group.

Means the square root of fuck all in the grand scheme of things of course, but it's a bit of fun to see myself so high up the list thanks to the work i'm putting into my training.

I'm doing amazingly in the 300lb+ cat

isn't that just you and dan though?

10 miles tonight. Meant to be a half but I'm not complaining as it's been a long weekend.

Went for a very cautious 10k run today as the foot pain seemed to have somewhat gone.
It was ok. Need to spend time and effort on rehab, but I don't know what the problem is.
Kinda annoying.

fast 6km last night. With a sub 4min km thrown in. Wondering if I can string 5 of these together for a sub 20min 5km. Kinda doubt it.

Weirdly. After beasting my legs at the gym Monday, running a fast 6km around 6pm Tuesday, I then accidently set a new FTP while doing a 30min TT vid on the turbo, at around 9pm. Had to use my fixed gear as my road bike is mid upgrade. So my horribly fatigued and stiff legs had no spinny warm up.

I think the intensity of my run/bike training this year is starting to kick in.

....or I'm peaking 4 months too early.

Today is my first rest day in 2 weeks. Feels kinda good to not have to run this evening.

Finished the speed work phase of my training last night. next week is strength phase which is just MP-10 seconds in intervals starting at 6x1mi and increasing in distance, decreasing in reps week by week, idea being to keep the gains from the speed work from slipping away until after race day.

Soooo.... after fucking my knee(well, I suspect the muscles above and below the actual joint) a couple of weeks back by sprinting at the end of a 13ish miler, I took a week off. Ran a very gentle 5miles yesterday and the pain came back towards the end(although it was twinging for the last couple of miles). Can't afford physio etc so trying to rest and ice as much as I can, although work also gives my body a kicking all day.
Paris is still 50+ days away. Can I afford to take 2weeks off running at this stage in the game to allow it to settle again properly? Current longest distance is only 16miles but suspect the 18miles I'm supposed to do this weekend might do some actual damage..... Can keep up the r.i.c.e and get as much yoga/squats in to hopefully strengthen the area but worried at the moment if I go for a proper run I'll batter myself...

Nice. Floated the idea to her. Cheers.

I'm doing York 10k too.. Should be a laugh. Using it as a recce before the York marathon in oct.

Went for a very cautious 10k run today as the foot pain seemed to have somewhat gone.
It was ok. Need to spend time and effort on rehab, but I don't know what the problem is.
Kinda annoying.

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no

Now my ankles have been sprained more times than amy winehouse was pissed

But im still getting top ten wins..mwah hahahaha

Soooo.... after fucking my knee(well, I suspect the muscles above and below the actual joint) a couple of weeks back by sprinting at the end of a 13ish miler, I took a week off. Ran a very gentle 5miles yesterday and the pain came back towards the end(although it was twinging for the last couple of miles). Can't afford physio etc so trying to rest and ice as much as I can, although work also gives my body a kicking all day.
Paris is still 50+ days away. Can I afford to take 2weeks off running at this stage in the game to allow it to settle again properly? Current longest distance is only 16miles but suspect the 18miles I'm supposed to do this weekend might do some actual damage..... Can keep up the r.i.c.e and get as much yoga/squats in to hopefully strengthen the area but worried at the moment if I go for a proper run I'll batter myself...

Do you know what injury you have? Runner's Knee, IT Band syndrome etc.. I think a proper diagnosis is vital.

For time-off, according to this, in two weeks you won't lose that much;
http://runnersconnect.net/running-injury-prevention/losing-running-fitness/
I'd use the time to cross (and strength) train if I was you (as long as it does not hurt). The elliptical running machine is good or just cycle/swim. Do you have a foam roller?

I just got back from over 3 months out from a patellofemoral issue. During the summer I was doing 50-90k weeks and then I couldn't run a kilometre without pain. I had some IMS acupuncture done and did two months of strength training. Now I like using elliptical to push up my milage without the constant pounding of running. In Istanbul there a very few nice mud trails, it's all concrete costal paths. For example, today I did a 5k at 90% on the treadmill and topped it up with a 20 minute elliptical "run".

Thanks for the tip Marco, a quick look around runners world seems to point towards ITband syndrome due to location and running downhill making it worse and other factors etc.
I don't have a foam roller but do have a rolling pin type one. Am about to start doing the streches recommended on RW...

I plan to run some while I am away in India for 3 weeks on a dental holiday; I have Garmin edge 800 and HRM and would like to use it to measure the data. Anyone here does that? I dont fancy buying running specific GPS.