Weekend long run
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c25kThe aches I'd noticed on Thursday were still there faintly on Friday, and gone on Saturday. I gave myself an extra day for caution and today I decided to go for approx 10k, which turned into 12.2k because of fitting my running time to the thing I was listening to (ahem). I did 30s:45s run:walk, and averaged 8:46 min/km, more or less the same as last week.
I was trying to consciously pay attention to how I was running, how the ex-broken-toe and the opposite knee were feeling, and also (given discussion onhighlyeccentric 's post) how my shins were feeling. Toe and knee seemed fine, with occasional twinges (the knee was feeling unhappy at about 8k but eased up again before I got home). Shins were occasionally achy but this also passed. By the time of writing this, an hour or so later, my muscles are aching but not my bones or joints.
A couple of my rather-more-experienced running friends have talked about "trying to run as quietly as possible" as an approach to running in the most efficient/least stressing way. The idea being that trying to break down the movement into most efficient steps is hard to think about, but "being quiet" is a whole-body exercise using all our conscious and unconscious feedback, and seems to approximate to the same thing. There is no way that I actually run quietly, but I can certainly change how my feet hit the ground so as to run more quietly and it does seem to feel more comfortable too.
If I still feel ok tomorrow I will try my back-to-running week 3 again, with 30s:30s run:walk.
I was trying to consciously pay attention to how I was running, how the ex-broken-toe and the opposite knee were feeling, and also (given discussion on
highlyeccentric 's post) how my shins were feeling. Toe and knee seemed fine, with occasional twinges (the knee was feeling unhappy at about 8k but eased up again before I got home). Shins were occasionally achy but this also passed. By the time of writing this, an hour or so later, my muscles are aching but not my bones or joints.A couple of my rather-more-experienced running friends have talked about "trying to run as quietly as possible" as an approach to running in the most efficient/least stressing way. The idea being that trying to break down the movement into most efficient steps is hard to think about, but "being quiet" is a whole-body exercise using all our conscious and unconscious feedback, and seems to approximate to the same thing. There is no way that I actually run quietly, but I can certainly change how my feet hit the ground so as to run more quietly and it does seem to feel more comfortable too.
If I still feel ok tomorrow I will try my back-to-running week 3 again, with 30s:30s run:walk.
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Date: 14/07/2014 02:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14/07/2014 02:53 pm (UTC)Today my left knee / lower leg muscles are a bit sore, but I went for an experimental half-hour gentle walk at lunchtime which seemed to loosen things up and make them happier, though it was uncomfortable at first. It was Too Hot for me to run happily anyway, so it's not like I lost a running opportunity by doing that.
I'm going to try to do the same thing again this evening (rather than running).