I met up with Coach PH for dinner a couple months ago and managed to get some free coaching from him. I explained to him my frustration with not being able to run more than 10-12 minutes without either 1) my shin muscles locking up or 2) My knee throbbing. His explanation was that I'm in much better cardiovascular shape than my body can handle . . or something like that. It seemed strange to think that after taking 8 years off running, I could still be strong cardiovascularly but it would explain all the stupid muscle injuries. He also said that the only way he's able to run now is to start off walking for 5 minutes and then rotate between walking/running.
My new running plan is to make sure I'm running very slow, painfully slow. I try to keep it around 9 to 9:30 pace. The walking/running intervals seems to be working better for me too. I'm up to 25 minutes of total running.
I'm not sure if I can stand this routine very long since my natural tendency is to make a countermove whenever some chick blows past me on the track. Next time I see him I'll ask him about adding a full-tilt 200 into the plan (barefoot of course).
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