So what’s up?
I’ve been pottering a long but not really doing much, apart from eating.
It’s Saturday so the taxi service starts early with a trip to the ice rink. Then its back home and take the dog for a long walk. Within 5 minutes of coming home, it’s off to the ice rink again. First thing in the morning it is very cold there. But they open up a cafe at 8-ish and so it is warmer for the rest of the morning.
Exercise-wise, nothing much has happened. I’ve been riding to work a bit (70k) but no proper training. Swimming has been pretty poor too. I think I have been stalling with it because of the horrible hay-fever symptoms that I get for the rest of the day. The nose clips have helped a bit but keep coming off. Or at least they did until I found a new pair that work really well. I am going to try to buy another pair so I have a spare and also try to find a way of attaching them to my goggles (a royal mail elastic band) so that I don’t lose them in the lake.
The re-engineered running hasn’t gone well though. I started off running once or twice a day until I got food poisoning. After that I went for a forty minute run with a few others and the shoes dug into my heals resulting in a cut/blister. By that I mean it is a kind of cut into the skin with a blister either side of that that then seemed to combine. Sore! This meant I did less running. I then wore some minimal sandals on a six hour shopping/walking trip to Cardiff. The blisters I got on my toes meant that I walked wrongly on my heels and this meant that I got a sore right heel. Running then made it worse.
So, I have partially un-re-engineered my run. Body posture is still there. I run like that quite easily now, only sometimes catching myself reverting back. The flat foot landing is something that is harder. It seems to work quite easily with my left foot but my right foot doesn’t like it as much – perhaps because of the sore heel. So, I have decided to concentrate on making my heels land, but only after the ball of the foot has touched. Before, my heels didn’t touch. The other change that will happen is to make sure that I don’t land on the outside of my feet. That will take a bit more concentration if I allow a bit more of a forefoot landing.