Sunday, July 10, 2005
Keeping podiatrists amused
Thursday 7/07/2005 1:30pm
Workout Type: Endurance - Medium Endurance
Course: Loretto
Distance: 10
Time: 50:24
Speed: 5:02 min/km
Average HR: 137
Saturday 9/07/2005
Workout Type: Endurance - Short Endurance
Course: Loretto
Distance: 6
Time: 28:26
Speed: 4:44 min/km
Average HR: 154
After the theatrics of Tuesday's run, I slammed on the brakes on Thursday's run, and ran my slowest recorded 10km ever. However, with an average HR of 137 at 5:02/km, I was very happy with the session, which was understandably very comfortable. Friday night I visted CoolRunner PodRunner (also known as Andrew Bull at Sportswise) in his professional capacity as a podiatrist. I have this theory that podiatrists use the videos of my feet as after dinner entertainment at conferences. They are so flat that my achilles slope in 10 degrees. Added to this, apparantly I have hyper-flexability - which is one of the contributing factors to my ongoing ankle woes - interesting that this has never been brought to my attention (and that it doesn't extend to useful areas, like my calves and hamstrings). Like all good podiatrists, he prescribed new orthotics, but agreed to have a shot at fixing my existing ones, to take pressure off my 2nd, 3rd and 4th metatarsals (the first metatarsal is apparently shirking its responsibilties, causing the others to bear too much load). A raise under the first metatarsal to try and get it doing more of the work was the handiwork involved.
Ironically, having travelled all the way to Bondi from Wahroonga, I discovered that Andrew lives around the corner from me. When he fixes my feet we will hopefully go for a few runs together.
Having seen what my feet do whilst running in barefeet (it's not pretty), I was keen to try some running in shoes, and headed out in the cold and dark of Saturday night (grass running loses its appeal when you can't really see where you are going). Only 6km at an easy clip, but it felt OK - no feet problems. However, my feet have been a bit niggly today, so I will drop back to barefeet again tomorrow, and slowly build up in the shoes. A definite improvement from previous runs, but still not popping the champagne corks yet. Running in shoes brought back a few niggles, mainly due to my non-existent stretching routine. Still, it would be great to be married to a massage therapist right now.
Popped in to CoolRunning for a couple of hours (OK - seven hours) after my PodRunner appointment. A good night as always, although as my wine drinking partner-in-crime was a late starter, I was forced to drink her half of the bottle as well, and an early peak led to an early trough, which lead to an earlier than usual departure, without so much as a single "Come on Eileen" on the dance floor.
Planning to do four or five runs next week, although aiming to keep the pace easy, and the distance at 8-12 km.
Sally makes her blog debut with Louis...
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I am told by Scott that being married to a massage therapist is overrated. I eventually refused to give him massages any more as they are no substitute for a regular stretching routine.
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