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Saturday Mar 28, 2020 #
12 PM
Road running 37:26 4.13 mi (9:04 / mi) +82m 8:32 / mi
ahr:118 max:138 shoes: Kayano 25 Blue
I've been having a terrible time with running. First of all, I knew going into this calendar year that my workload was going to be maxed out. It's all stuff I want to do, but it was all going to happen at once. So I just don't have the luxury of doing a leisurely run with cooldown and some core strength. But since January I've had an odd neurological problem with one foot, it's got some drop, so my foot clops on the road and I trip over little things. It makes running kind of unpleasant. It's getting better, and I have almost complete control over it now, but who knows why, or whether it will happen again.
Then there's vertigo. It started about a month ago, for no apparent reason. I saw a specialist (got in before the pandemic but had to cancel the follow-up). It seems to have stopped of its own in the past 2 days. It didn't really impact my life, but it felt crappy and depressing. And again, I can only hope it doesn't come back.
Then last weekend I developed severe heel cracks, which got so bad I couldn't walk. Oddly, I could run (but I didn't) because my running stride has a midfoot impact, but walking is heel-striking. With TLC from my wife, these too have improved to the extent that I could run today without even a twinge.
So, here's hoping there's a training season ahead. Last year I ran something like 9 races and won them all, in the 65+ age group. I don't want to make it as hard as last year, but I'd like to get a few races in by the fall.
Then there's vertigo. It started about a month ago, for no apparent reason. I saw a specialist (got in before the pandemic but had to cancel the follow-up). It seems to have stopped of its own in the past 2 days. It didn't really impact my life, but it felt crappy and depressing. And again, I can only hope it doesn't come back.
Then last weekend I developed severe heel cracks, which got so bad I couldn't walk. Oddly, I could run (but I didn't) because my running stride has a midfoot impact, but walking is heel-striking. With TLC from my wife, these too have improved to the extent that I could run today without even a twinge.
So, here's hoping there's a training season ahead. Last year I ran something like 9 races and won them all, in the 65+ age group. I don't want to make it as hard as last year, but I'd like to get a few races in by the fall.