New Shoes!

[amalthea52]

I've done a couple of runs in my new shoes (adding a pic as per request)

Plodding along on week 6 run 1, was tough today, but I think that was because I was on the gin on saturday night and ate a lot of rubbish at a food festival (burgers, falafel, crisps, sweets!). Followed advice on here about hydration, rest etc.

My mood was also pretty crap when i went out, but part of going was to give myself some headspace to run the grumps out of my system. Seemed to work a little.

I am getting really tight calf muscles and tired knee/ ankle joints now i am doing longer runs, which is annoying. Doing lots of stretching but they are still grumpy, a bit like me at the moment!

[Jay66UK Graduate]

Loving your shoes.

I also got tight calves early on but it seems to have eased off of late. A foam roller might help? Hot baths with radox muscle soak bath salts (rather than just the bubble bath version) have really helped me.

My knees and ankles have been ok - is this since the new shoes? It may be taking your legs some time to adjust to the new shape they are being forced into.

[amalthea52 Graduate in reply to Jay66UK]

Yes, I'm not sure if it's the shoes or that I'm running for longer.

Have ordered a foam roller after looking it up, looks like the kind of thing I need! Thanks for the recommendation

[Navidvivo]

I’ve got the same shoes too (different colour) and they are very very comfortable when running compared to my previous ones which were gym trainers really.

[amalthea52 Graduate in reply to Navidvivo]

They are super comfortable

I loved the other colour choice (with the mint stripe?) found it hard to choose!