19-06-2012, 11:50 AM
Hi TheEd,
So, went for a run before work this morning, glorious sunshine but still quite cool, absolute bliss!
I covered 5.13k in the 30 minutes allocated, (perhaps went a little too slow) splits below with Max HR to follow when I get home tonight. Is there anything else that might be useful? Would it be better to post the link to my activity on Garmin Connect?
Distance---Avg Pace---Avg HR----Max HR
1----------05:54------149-------***
1----------05:52------152-------***
1----------05:44------153-------***
1----------05:55------152-------***
1----------05:51------155-------***
.13--------05:38------153-------***
I can see the general development of my fitness in the numbers (I love my Garmin!), I'd run some easy runs before at an average pace of over 6 min/k and my HR was higher than the above.
Shins feel a little tender but I'm putting that down to the 2k session on Sunday, with some ice, stretching and cycling they'll come round.
On the shins issue there is a little more background that may help, when I had my baptism of fire with running again in March I was using a pair of Adidas running shoes I'd bought not too long before, note no shin issues at this stage.
I then switched to a pair of New Balance around the time of the half marathon, I noticed the heel seemed quite high when compared to the Adidas shoes but thought nothing of it. Subsequently developed a niggle with my shins, I did some things as explained before to ease them and stretch them but I also switched back to the Adidas shoes for the 10k and had no issue during that race.
This tells me the New Balance shoes don't suit my gait and were perhaps causing me to land too much on the heel therefore smacking the front of my foot on touchdown thereby causing the issue, does that seem plausible?
So, I'm not too worried about the shins at the moment, I think the introduction of cycling into my plan will give me time to repair any damage there. Am I being overly optimistic?
Thanks!
So, went for a run before work this morning, glorious sunshine but still quite cool, absolute bliss!
I covered 5.13k in the 30 minutes allocated, (perhaps went a little too slow) splits below with Max HR to follow when I get home tonight. Is there anything else that might be useful? Would it be better to post the link to my activity on Garmin Connect?
Distance---Avg Pace---Avg HR----Max HR
1----------05:54------149-------***
1----------05:52------152-------***
1----------05:44------153-------***
1----------05:55------152-------***
1----------05:51------155-------***
.13--------05:38------153-------***
I can see the general development of my fitness in the numbers (I love my Garmin!), I'd run some easy runs before at an average pace of over 6 min/k and my HR was higher than the above.
Shins feel a little tender but I'm putting that down to the 2k session on Sunday, with some ice, stretching and cycling they'll come round.
On the shins issue there is a little more background that may help, when I had my baptism of fire with running again in March I was using a pair of Adidas running shoes I'd bought not too long before, note no shin issues at this stage.
I then switched to a pair of New Balance around the time of the half marathon, I noticed the heel seemed quite high when compared to the Adidas shoes but thought nothing of it. Subsequently developed a niggle with my shins, I did some things as explained before to ease them and stretch them but I also switched back to the Adidas shoes for the 10k and had no issue during that race.
This tells me the New Balance shoes don't suit my gait and were perhaps causing me to land too much on the heel therefore smacking the front of my foot on touchdown thereby causing the issue, does that seem plausible?
So, I'm not too worried about the shins at the moment, I think the introduction of cycling into my plan will give me time to repair any damage there. Am I being overly optimistic?
Thanks!