Ok thereās a lot going on here.
New shoes !! Hopefully to match my bunioned feet. Got gait analysis done and after internet research and trying a few on settled for Hoka Clifton 7 wide fit, half a size up from my previous flimsy and ancient Nike flex fury which were starting to rub on longer runs and possibly making me suffer from plantar fasciitis (self diagnosed so not sure there !!). First run in new shoes was great - though I foolishly started with a long run (50 mins - yikes), but was prepared to do shorter one if they gave me trouble. Long story short - towards end of my run I noticed my ankles felt like they were doing more work than usual - while my feet felt lovely and happy ! Cool down walk home was like on air - great. But when I took them off realised there must have been some pressure on the outside of my left foot - the widest part of my foot. Maybe they are not wide enough ?! Is a bit painful but not chafed or red or anything. Hope tomorrow itās not worse and maybe will alternate with old shoes next run but - any ideas on why my ankles felt like they were working harder ? Iāve gone from an unpadded shoe to padded one with arch support.... And had them laced right up to the last hole, though donāt think they were too tight...
Second thing going on - well Iāve been trying to cheat my Garmin (birthday present !!). Having been thrilled that my first couple of runs had my VO2max showing my fitness age was 3 years younger than reality (yey!) after todayās run itās showing Iāve regressed 2 years !! Rather than accept that Iāve over done it.... Iām hoping itās because Iāve confused the programme - you see Iām following one of the Garmin 10K coaching plans but Iām only in week 2 while at the same time Iāve just completed week 5 of JuJuās plan - so the Garmin run was just 20 mins run with 5+5 warm up/cool down but I was aiming for a full 50 mins running - so I ran the Garmin 30 mins programme (running through the cool down) then restarted it and ran another 20 mins on a āfreeā (not programmed) run. Of course it thinks I must be terribly unfit to be huffing and puffing so much for the second 20 min run - so is this why itās reduced my score ? Very unhappy !! š¤Ø