Mileage reporting 31st week of 2014

Another most excellent 9 mile run at 5:00 am., 72 deg. f., 88 % Rh...
Saw some rabbits, heard 1 owl and 2 roosters.
I sometimes think about how much I love feeling all the different texture with bare feet even the wet grass and soft mat when I enter the house after a run.
This was my last run of the week. Total miles 27.
Love to run barefoot!!
 
Thursday - 10 miles shod. 2 hill repeats for an elevation change of around 2000 ft.

Friday - 5 barefoot miles - really paid off being barefoot today. Went down one of our roads and spotted a few washers. From the green paint I knew they came off one of our John Deere forage harvesters. Worried that a missing part was out in the fields I started inspecting the equipment. Then realized that one of the harvesters had a problem with the pick up not lifting. Sure enough, I looked underneath and discovered a missing bolt on the hydraulic ram (the washers are spacers on the bolt). This saved me hours of troubleshooting. I would have been searching for an electrical problem. Replacing switches and tracing wires. Had I been shod, I would have not gone down that road in the first place and even if I had I would have missed the washers for sure.

Saturday - 27 shod trail run in the mountains. Rugged trails at altitude with plenty of elevation change. Planned for 31 but came up short and at the end of the run it was raining pretty hard and I had 15 pounds of mushrooms in my pack. I called it a day falling 4 miles short of my goal. Kind of a risk, but I ran with brand new shoes out of the box. New Balance MT1010v2. Really liked them. No hot spots. A few trips and toe stubs, but I never went down. These will fill a gap in my shoe quiver (rugged trails in the 30-50 mile range) and are much lighter than my Altra Lone Peaks.

Weekly miles of 96, a new personal best. No hurry to hit 100, I'm going to back it off for a while.;)
 
Yesterday (Sunday) - 17.5km on the beach. Sunny but cold and the water was freezing every time the waves lapped up to where I was running. Patted a few dogs, picked up a couple of shells for my little girl, and generally felt good the whole way.

However, afterwards I pulled up a bit sore - pain at the back of my heel. I get the weirdest niggles. It's the next morning and it is still a little bit sore, but it does seem to be subsiding. Fingers crossed. The worst thing is that I was going to run with some guys from work today and it is a beautiful cold but sunny day again - not a cloud in the sky. Oh well. Anybody got an accurate internet diagnosis for this one?
 
Friday - 2.15 km barefoot run on pavement. Pace : terrible. I had to walk at one point due to some pain on the inside of the big big toe on the middle knuckle (I guess?). Since saturday, I have a bruise there and don't know why. Hope all goes well.
 
Only 18 mi for me this past week. I know I said that I was going to dial down my weekend long runs but come on, I was lazy and I skipped my long run so I had zippo miles for the weekend!!:D
 
Finally got in 20 miles mpw. Very hot run down by the (Mississippi) river again Saturday afternoon, but my soles seem to have adapted fully. Don't know why, but lately I don't want to run anywhere else besides the river. Maybe because it takes me back to last summer when I was really starting to hit my stride building up distance down there.

Also, they redid the street surfaces in my neighborhood last week, it's like coarse sandpaper now, but I likes it, so that's not a reason not to do more street running.

Congrats on the new weekly PR Rick!

Spiderweb, maybe try massaging or rolling the bottoms of your feet? When I was starting to get back into regular running a month or two ago, I got PF-like symptoms for the first time, around my heel, met heads, and inner arch. Rolling with my wooden foot roller seemed to help. Now a quick stretch and occasional roll seems to be all my arch/plantar/heel muscles need.
 
5 miles yesterday, slow and steady, I was rather pleasantly surprised that I was not stiff or achy from the 16 miler the day before.

If I count the mile or so that I run with the dog during his walks everyday, that puts me at about 38 miles for the week.

I need more of that, as I spent the last several weeks doing mostly high intensity low mileage stuff, which noticeably improved my strength, and increased my aerobic threshold, but I absolutely sacrificed some endurance during that period.
 
Yesterday (Sunday) - 17.5km on the beach. Sunny but cold and the water was freezing every time the waves lapped up to where I was running. Patted a few dogs, picked up a couple of shells for my little girl, and generally felt good the whole way.

However, afterwards I pulled up a bit sore - pain at the back of my heel. I get the weirdest niggles. It's the next morning and it is still a little bit sore, but it does seem to be subsiding. Fingers crossed. The worst thing is that I was going to run with some guys from work today and it is a beautiful cold but sunny day again - not a cloud in the sky. Oh well. Anybody got an accurate internet diagnosis for this one?


Back in the day we I use to sit in an ice bath after every run, it made it possible to train relatively pain free nearly everyday, even though I had pain inducing bad running form back then.

I don't have an athletics room ice tub anymore, and I don't run in a way that causes much pain, but I do get some kind of little 'niggle' relatively often, and chalk it up to age and weight.

My secret weapon is ice everyday, after every run...that and some rolling.

I have about 6 flexible gel ice packs in the freezer, and several setups to strap them to whatever body part is a little stiff or achy after any particular run...by strapping them on I can move around and forget about them while they do their thing.

It keeps any little achy painy 'niggles' from bleeding over into the next day really well.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Larry and Bare Lee