Hello ! so today was my second 10 mile run-walk yippee ! but I decided to take it a bit easier than last time because I suffered a little bit - my ankles were very sore afterwards, in fact I didn’t run again for another week though I did walk my run route twice during the week. so this time I made a conscious decision to increase the number of walk breaks that I take thus reduce the time that I’m running. last time I was running for 1 km and then walking for one minute, but this time I was listening to coach Bennett on ‘another 10 mile run’ and I decided I would take both his prompts (at half mile or km or whenever he decided to tell me I’d reached a milestone) AND my watch prompts after each kilometre, as a prompt for a one minute walk. I wasn’t quite sure what that would mean but I guess on the whole I should never be running for longer than 1 km before I have a walk break and sometimes it was quite a short run, possibly just 400 m. Looking at my stats, I did it in two hours and 13 minutes and I took about 22 walk breaks, which on average works out at five minutes running then 1 min walking (though couple of my walks at the end were much longer 🤣). Maybe I’ll take that as my baseline next time. I don’t know if it was harder - probably wasn’t because I was having more breaks - but my ankles still feel it and perhaps I’m over doing it. I made conscious decision to walk for longer around the 14km mark - the path was uneven and part of it was uphill and I was feeling v tired - though I did run the entire last km without a stop. I’m going to do some exercises and stretches this afternoon and take it easy. 😴
Oh ! And passed the 200 mile point on Pennine Way - hurrah ! Just over 60 miles to go...
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That’s fantastic Juliet! It sounds like you found the perfect solution to protect your ankles for the most part, but still get a good juicy 10 miler in. 👏👏
Woohoo on your postcard too! You’re so close to the end. Will you do another challenge when it’s over? I’m currently on LEJOG4 and Route 66. 😀
I’m not sure to be honest whether I’ll do another virtual end to end challenge. I chose the Pennine way because I’m from those parts originally and I thought it would give me something to share with my family - and indeed it has - I’ve kept my dad up to date with my progress and he’s been reminiscing about his old exploits walking the Pennine way in sections with my older brother (when he was still quite young) and he himself has been cycling the lands end to John o groats on his exercise bike 🤣 (which he also did in his youth) - though he’s been mapping his route himself using map software and basing the distances on average 10 miles per day but always stopping somewhere where there’s ‘accommodation’ (and not on the motorway !) - So it’s been quite a stimulus, but I’m not sure how much further I’ll take it. Let’s see !
Good question - my Hoka cliftons are quite new (as is my running habit !) - since July I think - I only got them as I found going longer distances I needed a firmer shoe and prior to that had been wearing very flat light ones. I have bunions and I remembered that a few years ago (before I started running) a foot expert (skeletal-muscular clinic) told me I needed a shoe that ‘rocks forward’ as I was getting very painful feet - now I realise it might have been plantar fasciitis (according to dr google and forums such as this !) and I did my internet research on the best shoe and came up with Hoka Bondi - but the shop I bought them from didn’t have bondi and also warned me that they were probably too padded compared to what I was used to and persuaded me that Clifton would be just fine (sales technique !). These new shoes immediately addressed the problem though initially it put a little more strain on the back of the ankle (Achilles ?) but I soon got used to them. Today I found myself experimenting with landing on the ball of my foot instead of the heel (when they started to hurt) which felt awkward but helped a bit. I reckon I’m just going too far too fast and need to consolidate a bit more. Hence the ‘jeffing’ it, but even so.... if any of this resonates I’d be happy to hear advice / reflection ! (Looking online I think it’s probably the tendon on the inner side of the heel that hurts.... ). Ho hum, as coach Bennett said today, it takes courage to slow down !! 😀
I have Cliftons too. Tasha99 replied to someone recently with an article that suggested low drop (which the Cliftons are) can be bad for feet and ankles (although having said that, the independent shop that sold me them expressly said they would protect my previous metatarsal stress fracture which occurred in a high drop shoe, in direct contradiction to the article so who knows!).
Hmmm interesting - been reading up. A bit confused about needing a higher drop in that case - i though it was the high drop that was causing me problems in the first place before I changed to Hokas. Or maybe I needed more arch support (which I get from
The Hoka Clifton) and the ‘drop’ was irrelevant to that ? I’m confused !
Congratulations on getting your second 10 miles done.Thanks for sharing the details of your walk run, I keep wondering if this would be a better option for me to try. But I don't really like the coach sessions so would need to program it into my watch. I was trying to get to 10 miles by mid February, but I'm on the IC atm with a dodgy knee, but walk run might help when I start again.
Hope the dodgy knee improves soon !!! I can report that my ankles today are far far better than the day after my first 10miles - so certainly increasing the walk to run ratio helped a lot in that respect. Still not sure I’m ready to progress further though - but I still have 10 weeks left on the training plan ! I haven’t worked out how to programme my phone at the same time as a ‘training plan’ run - ie if I was to do the recommended one minute run, 30 seconds walk I’d definitely need a sound or buzz prompt - i can’t spend 2 hours looking at my wrist !
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