Well, so much for a good plan. To catch everyone up, a couple weeks back I went on a long run, had achilles pain, switched shoes, pain seemed better so I speculated that more supportive shoes might help at least on longer runs.
I went for a long run a week later wearing the shoes I thought might help, well I had achilles pain after 4 miles. I was running in the western section (think more hills) of Lebanon Hills but gee, 4 miles, not good. I continued on for another 5 miles and since I knew I would be out of town, I decided that taking some time off would be in order.
This past weekend I tried again, I wore my Peregrines thinking that they might work. I chose to run the river bottoms thinking that I should focus on getting in time on my feet and by avoiding hills it might lesson the achilles issues. Well the location and shoes might have helped but I will never know as I aborted this run early too but for an entirely different reason. For the first time ever during running, I experienced cramping which led to an emergency stop. Suffice to say I know now why you keep TP in your Nathan. After the emergency stop, I tried to resume running, cramped a bit more and so I headed for the car, I also got to deal with some significant chafing, all in all not a fun run but an educational one.
So what now?
I will try again this weekend and am currently planning on heading back to the river bottoms as I still think avoiding hills is wise. I have 3 more weekends to get in some base mileage before Surf the Murph and I sure hope to take advantage of them, I just need to avoid aggravating things any more My thinking is if I can just get to the low 20's for my longer runs then I will get through the day as I really want to finish an ultra this year. Last year I didn't finish any ultra distance race and with none thus far this year I don't really feel like much of an ultra runner.
Anyway, I sure hope next weekend works out better.
2 comments:
i tweaked mt achelis at pavo nurmi in augest and then again going over a wall at tough mudder elly and i have been running in vff's only for the last 2 years but i may have to go back to my trail shoes for surf hope to see you there we will be lineing up in the back to go slow and finish one of thoses years i guess
sounds like you're making good decisions with a frustrating issue... hard to be patient but keep it up.
I wouldn't worry too much about getting to 20 miles, and if you don't really take walking breaks when you avoid hills you could consider throwing some in... mimic the run/walk pattern of running in hilly areas ?
here's hoping you have fun running this weekend!
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