I drank the cool aid - Born to Run changed my life. I'm not a crazy barefooter, but I'm a crazy anti-heel striker! I'm just riffing now because I've had a few drinks. So I went into the forefoot striking "Hard-On!" and I paid the price - four pulled calves and counting. I should have eased into it, but I did not, because running actually felt good again.
Anybody struggling with pulled calves?
I also discovered, when I first changed my form, I was landing too close to my toes. Too far forward on my foot. My foot would actually skip into the ground. After a few YouTube videos, I found out I need to land on the forefoot and almost let my heel 'kiss' the ground. Like Pat used to do to me whenever I was asleep at 750 South High. This technique is awesome and makes running at 35 much easier. That's why I'm drinking whiskey right now.
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Damn! Between this blog post and Jesse's daily reminders of how awesome the book is I might have to skip the Keith Richards bio and make BTR my next read. I'm reading In a Sunburned Country now by Bill Bryson which has nothing to do with the theme of this blog but it's a pretty good book nonetheless.
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ReplyDeleteTrying to get to the bottom of what is causing your injuries may help. Since it is winter, I assume you are training according to our old Indoor Track schedules. Let's take a look:
Monday - AM run, afternoon all out hill workout with a moderate run mixed in for a warmdown
Tuesday - Intervals or really hard tempo (probably run at an easy race effort rather than a tempo)
Wednesday - AM pool + easy run, PM moderate effort run
Thursday - see Tuesday
Friday - AM pool + easy run, PM moderate effort
Saturday - Travel around the Northeast and enter a race
Sunday - Long run. Try your best to keep up with Fenton or to shake off a mean hangover, or both
So I guess maybe you could just do the pool instead of your AM runs on Wednesday or Friday. You are doing your pool workouts... right? Outside of that, I don't see what the problem is.
Thanks Chris, I would have never of thought that I should just skip the Wednesday and Friday AM runs. Thanks for the tip, that should heal me right up. I just hope my bones do not weaken from the reduced mileage.
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