Time: 9.30am
Route: Brodie Park
Distance: 5.5miles
Time Run: 46mins 25secs (average pace – 8.14)
Lap splits (1.10mile): 9.38, 9.10, 8.48, 8.44
I decided to try out my foot and go for a run. As I set off I could feel my foot but it wasn’t too bad so decided to run one loop and see how it felt. It is almost half a mile to the park on road and I took it really easy on the road.
On the first loop my foot was sore and I thought I’d just do one loop and jog home but half way round it eased off and so I decided to do another loop, then another and a fourth. It felt easier as the run went on so that was good.
After the run I’ve put some ice on it and while I can feel it, it’s no worse than before the run. So I think I will keep to off road running for the next couple of weeks before Loch Ness and see how it feels on race day.
I enjoyed using my garmin 205 for the first time on a run. Here is a graphic of the run and the elevation. If you click on the picture it will take you to the everytrail web site and you can see the order I ran the loops in by clicking the green arrow under the charts.
Good to hear you’re running again. As for missing a 22 miler, I would count your blessings. I’ve just done mine and it was awful!Can I join the longer second toe club? Seems like there’s quite a lot of us out there eh?
You’re all freaks then!Glad to see you enjoyed it, John, but get a road run onto your schedule in a few days (easy though)to see if there’s any reaction to the hard surface.
Glad to see your foot has passed its first test.
Agh, more Morton’s Toe. My wife will be pleased there are a growing group of you out there. Garmin-tastic training outputs John. You’ll be like a kid in a candy shop I imagine! Have you downloaded the free elevation correction plug-in for Sport Tracks? The Garmin software is horribly incorrect (100% out) at estimating ascent/descent.