So yesterday...I ran the 5k part of McCleay Trail (sp?) in VFFs. I concentrated really hard onBENDING MY KNEES (I can hearMike in my mind even now -lol).
It made running way easier and I had a lot less soreness afterward, than I usually have. The downhill part was especially easy, which it is usually harder for me. And everytime my foot landed on something that I could tell was about to hurt it (rocks...), I just "collapsed" onto it, rather than pushing away from it. A couple times I thought I though my knees were going to buckle, but apparently my hamstrings are stronger than I thought.
On a different note,I injured myself on a rock in the last 500 feet -but really due to psychological reasons more than anything. I had already "checked out" mentally, because I was almost done, when WHAM! I rammed my right foot right into a rock and smashed the second to the last toe on my right foot. It promptly swelled up, turned purple, than black the next day (today) and is now turning to red. Awesome. Not. The morale of that story is: The trail is not over until the trail is ACTUALLY over! LOL.
On a different note,I injured myself on a rock in the last 500 feet -but really due to psychological reasons more than anything. I had already "checked out" mentally, because I was almost done, when WHAM! I rammed my right foot right into a rock and smashed the second to the last toe on my right foot. It promptly swelled up, turned purple, than black the next day (today) and is now turning to red. Awesome. Not. The morale of that story is: The trail is not over until the trail is ACTUALLY over! LOL.
