11.9km/7.4mi today, 5 x 7'/3' intervals. I broke my 'unofficial' PR for 10km by running 49'48" during the intervals...Now need to repeat that during an official race !!
I used to seek out rougher surfaces, which around here means mostly mild chipseal, and a few places with gravel. Nowadays I really don't mind being a wuss and running on mostly smooth to almost smooth surfaces. Yesterday's run has a one-mile section of mild-chip seal, which was fine, and an optional 1/2 mile section of gravel, which I avoided because of the rain, but I think the secret to really rough surfaces like you describe is to run them all the time. What seems hardest is to go back and forth between smooth and rough, at least for me. Just as it would be hard to alternate between cold and warm, but once I'm into winter running, I can take cold surfaces just fine.I finished up on some smoother pavement feeling a little better, but my feet have that burn you tend to get after a rough run. Nothing nasty that I can see though, just feeling a little bit scuffed and bruisey on the bottom. I'll give them a rest and play golf tomorrow.
That's a great smile! That's what it's all about.They finally posted pictures from the 5K that I ran in back on Sunday. You know, the most remarkable thing about that photo is not me standing there in bare feet. It's the smile I've got. Happiness has been a rather elusive feeling in my life thanks to emotional predisposition and other factors that keep me more on the somber sided viewpoint. But Sunday morning was a good one. I had felt alive and light, I felt good about a large variety of decisions that I've made which led me to where I there stood. I couldn't help smiling right then.
Great to hear the surgery went well!Thursday - hospital duty ended up on a very extended schedule, then the wind was blowing so hard that it was knocking my Suburban around on the freeway. sigh. I had really been trying to get to a run, but I contacted hubby and he was up for the spin bikes when he got home from work, so I did that in the safety of the basement for 70 minutes again. Am really hoping for a run tomorrow. But the priority is to go to the NICU in the morning and have our first time holding the new grandbaby. Her mom and dad got to hold her for the first time today.
Rick W, was it this thread you said you're wearing conventional shoes?? . as far as the pain behind the knee you should get that book i keep talking about. "the trigger point self therapy manual" by Clare Davies. it will help you faster than i can.
This seems to happen to me too. For all the races I have done, I really havent got a good photo yet. Most of them dont even take photos. The bigger ones do, like the cap city that I've done 4 or 5 times now, and plenty of good pics while I was shod. They have like 5 or 6 cameras at different angles, and a couple that sweep back and forth constantly. I was really hoping to get some good ones this year, especially being the first time I did the half marathon (I had only ever done the 5k before) and being barefoot. I was all excited, willing to pay the big bucks to get one, and remembered to smile at the end and look good... well it was a different company doing it this year and I dont think there setup was as good. Not only did they not have me crossing the line from 3 or 4 angles like the previous year, but in my supposed pictures I was not in ANY of them! I dont know if their indexing was based of time or what, but I had a dozen pictures that came up as mine, but I wasnt in any of them. They got me in just one photo that was mid race, and one after the finish line, both were terrible shots. I tried searching for other peoples bib numbers that finished around the same time but eventually gave up. I also looked through the un-categorized ones but there were too many. Really hoping to finally get a pic at the marathon... but worried I wont look so great at the end lol!Damn, so close to having barefoot running picture of me taken. Oh well, it'll happen eventually I'm sure.
Today 5 miles easy running. Cold weather run with a starting temp. of 32F. Toes were slightly uncomfortable for about 1 mile into the wind, but then warmed up nicely.