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This mornings run
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mrdreamboat
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14 May 2012
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First blog entry today.
Exciting.
Finished Born to Run over the weekend, and found it to be an interesting read. A good story intertwined with a bit of science and anthropology but a nice light read none-the-less. I make no claims to being a running guru or even much of a runner for that matter, but what was said makes a lot of sense to me.
So with that in mind, my position as someone who got into this running caper a month or so ago seems well suited to making a change in the way I run more-so than someone who is more fixed in the way they move on account of having more repetitions of the movement behind them.
I have a flat loop around the local which is around 7.1km on the pavement, and which I have been running around for the last couple of weeks. Today I attempted the same loop in the shoes which I have been wearing for my runs (Saucony Triumph
, but with a firm focus on getting in a forefoot strike. I found the run to be lighter, and without the occasional niggles I have been getting such a tweak in the groin or just below the ankle. However, I had to resort to walking about 6km in due to the pain in my calves. My poor skinny legs are going to take a while to build up some more muscle to handle forefoot running! That said, when I first tried to get around the loop I pulled the pin at around 3.5km as I couldn't run any further, and I was certainly in no state to go again the next day. Calves still sore at 2 in the afternoon, but I will set the alarm and see how they feel in the morning anyway. Might be a walk only tomorrow.
Splashed out on some VFF's at lunchtime. No going back now.
Exciting.
Finished Born to Run over the weekend, and found it to be an interesting read. A good story intertwined with a bit of science and anthropology but a nice light read none-the-less. I make no claims to being a running guru or even much of a runner for that matter, but what was said makes a lot of sense to me.
So with that in mind, my position as someone who got into this running caper a month or so ago seems well suited to making a change in the way I run more-so than someone who is more fixed in the way they move on account of having more repetitions of the movement behind them.
I have a flat loop around the local which is around 7.1km on the pavement, and which I have been running around for the last couple of weeks. Today I attempted the same loop in the shoes which I have been wearing for my runs (Saucony Triumph
, but with a firm focus on getting in a forefoot strike. I found the run to be lighter, and without the occasional niggles I have been getting such a tweak in the groin or just below the ankle. However, I had to resort to walking about 6km in due to the pain in my calves. My poor skinny legs are going to take a while to build up some more muscle to handle forefoot running! That said, when I first tried to get around the loop I pulled the pin at around 3.5km as I couldn't run any further, and I was certainly in no state to go again the next day. Calves still sore at 2 in the afternoon, but I will set the alarm and see how they feel in the morning anyway. Might be a walk only tomorrow.Splashed out on some VFF's at lunchtime. No going back now.
