Every Wish That We Put Into Motion.... (comments welcome!)

[Herding_Cats]

The asics were a bust. I need a half-size bigger, and the volume (vertically) in the toe box is too low. As a "toe lifter" they just aren't going to work, even with a larger size.

I'm going to head into Fleet Feet tomorrow to get fitted (again) and try on everything they suggest. When I originally got fitted they had me try on some Ghosts and I very, very much did not like them. But it's been 4 years now, and I have to figure something out. I'm a little intrigued by the glycerine max, and I might be able to get them on a discount from *a source.* Of course, I have to drive to the further-away and significantly less convenient location to try that shoe on and I do NOT care for the color they carry in the store, and I'll end up having to order them anyway if they even work.

 

[avondale]

I have very wide feet, high arches, and a high instep (the top of my foot running up to my ankle is very "tall"). I also tend to lift up the big toe of each foot when I run for some reason. But I clench up my other toes.

Anyway, don't know if that's similar. I wear Brooks Adrenalines. Previously Ghosts, but I felt like my knees preferred the "stability" shoe. I also tend to wear my shoes pretty loose compared to what a lot of people like, probably because of the high instep issue - I always feel like shoes are too tight up there, so I just don't tie them tightly.

 

[Herding_Cats]

I have a pair of glycerine 22s being delivered tomorrow. I tried on about 4 different shoes at fleet feet today, and those felt the best. There were also a pair of Karhu(?) that felt pretty good but I liked the squish of the glycerines more. We will see if they work out.

He semi-jokingly mentioned that I could get expedited shipping for $5 and I declined it because I’ve always gotten my shoes within 3 days. My order was confirmed at 11:46, labeled for shipping/ready for pickup at 1:47, and I got a FedEx notice they they’ll be delivered tomorrow at 3:32 this afternoon. So fingers crossed they don’t make everything hurt.

 

[Herding_Cats]

New shoes were……different. Aside from the whole issue where I can’t lace them with a heel lock, they feel a lot different underfoot than I’m used to. Not good different. Not bad different. Just odd different.

I will be sending my pcp a note tomorrow asking for a PT referral for the ongoing issue with my Achilles. I tried to go for 4mi today and cut it back from 20/30 to walk-only at about the 2mi mark again because it just hurt too much. It’s so frustrating, and I’m sure I’ll end up spending $$$$ to do calf raises.

 

[Herding_Cats]

Fall is peaking.

Pulled off the road on Wednesday morning on my way to work to take this.


Don’t believe the smile. My ankles/achilles hurt so bad at this point.

 

[Herding_Cats]

Well that was a pleasant surprise! Called to schedule with the PT's office this morning and they're able to get me in tomorrow morning! I'll have to be on top of things with DD and have her at school as soon as they open to let kids in for the day to make it on time, but this sure beats the "we can get you in next month" that I was expecting!

 

[Herding_Cats]

PT confirmed my suspicions and said Achilles tendinopathy. He scraped my calves (OUCH!) and had me do calf raises on a step (*sigh*) and I'm supposed to do 3 sets of 15 1-2x a day. I go back next week and it looks like I'm scheduled 2x a week for a little bit. I asked about running, after making it clear that *running* is the thing that really aggravates things the most and he said something to the effect of "will you keep running if it hurts?" No. I'll run until it hurts and then walk. "OK, well maybe don't do that then and just do a lot of walking instead. You'll still keep your endurance, but hopefully not stretch out how long we have to treat it."

So there we have it. No running for a little big. That makes me a little nervous on the shoe side of things since most shoes I can walk in without issue, but running causes various aches in my legs in most of the new/different shoe models I've tried. So fingers crossed PT helps clear some of that up.

 

[Mr_Incr3dible]

>> No. I'll run until it hurts and then walk.

That made me laugh

I hate that we have issues caused by our running. Running is a healthy thing, so one would think it shouldn't generate other health problems....
I also hate not being able to run, especially during prime running/training season. Good luck with the recovery.

 

[Herding_Cats]

I actually wanted to run this week. But I didn't. *sigh* I've been doing my calf raises every other day because they're making my calf muscles lock up for about a day, pretty high in the gastroc (which is new for me.) And also doing them is making my hamstrings clench up? So weird.

Going to attempt to get for a walk today, and maybe get on the spin bike for about 30min to try to get the HR higher.

DS2's XC team qualified for state finals yesterday. Barely. They were heavy favorites to win, but none of our runners had a good day (0 PRs run in what was basically perfect conditions) while the 2 teams that beat us had massive PRs (we're talking about kids dropping around a full minute) in all of their scoring runners. It was wild and we thought we might not qualify at all for a hot minute. DS2 ran 18:13, which is about where he's been most of the year, although he did run 17:43 2 weeks ago and we were hoping he could better that time.

DS3 (who is not quite 14) ran in the open race at the end of the meet and threw down an 18:29, and he's not even in very good shape. I was thinking that a low-19s was pretty likely but he blew me away with this time. There's a meet the week after state finals we usually take the kids to run in, and they should be in the same race there and now I wonder if he could pull of high 17s.

As an added note, the conditions really were just about perfect; it was in the low-to-mid 40s for all of the races, but I've never had so many kids cross the finish line and puke. DH and I usually volunteer to work the finish line because we can still spectate most of the race and then help get kids out of the way who have collapsed or are wobbly. We've done this for 5 years now and have a good sense of what to watch for as kids are coming in for who we need to grab and who looks OK. We've worked meets when it's in the 80s and we get concerned about dehydration or heat exhaustion and it was nothing like yesterday. By the 3rd race we were actively telling kids "You don't want to lay down here. There has been a lot of puking in the finish chute!" and boy did that get kids back on their feet long enough to get clear.


I'm totally not panicking at all about my lack of running. Totally. Everything is fine. This is fine.

 

[GollyGadget]

I have faith the PT will get you back to normal. I'm always amazed at how they know exactly the right stretches and strength exercises. I know they go to years of school but it still boggles my mind.

 

[jmasgat]

Was just reading about the state XC finals (and texting my DD about the incredible times for the D1 girls—her former division). Hope your son had a good race.

 

[Herding_Cats]

Was just reading about the state XC finals (and texting my DD about the incredible times for the D1 girls—her former division). Hope your son had a good race.

We weren’t there when that race ran, but HOLY SMOKES that girl is fast and only in 10th grade! For anyone wondering, a girl ran a 16:05 5k at State Finals, on a course that isn’t overly “fast” (in my opinion.) That’s the #1 girls time for hs girls in the US this year.

DS2 had an OK race. It was about what I was expecting honestly (18:39) but I was surprised that in order to even make top-30 in D3, boys had to run 16:15. That was a top-10 time 10 years ago!

I’ve been a bit of a mess emotionally since it was his last team race, senior year, watching him struggle and work so hard to get faster for 4 years and only having marginal success. There a pretty popular “open” meet next weekend he’s planning to run in (as are several other seniors on his team), and DS3 will run as well. One last hurrah with 0 stakes besides personal glory.

 

[Herding_Cats]

I've decided I'm going to run tomorrow. I'm just over 1 week away from working ms basketball games, and 2.5 weeks from high school scrimmages that I need to be ready for in the short term. Long term, we are obviously 66 days away from the HM and 67 from the marathon and I don't want those to be an absolute suffer-fest.

Plus, I need to figure out if the glycerines feel OK on my feet/legs for running before refereeing starts and I find out the hard way. AND I need to order black ones if they *do* work.

I go to PT this afternoon, and have to get fingerprinted about an hour before that so I can get back in the sub pool at the school; this will be the 4th time in 7 years that I'll have been fingerprinted for something since if you go 1 year without working for their staffing agency you get all your stuff kicked out of their system. Ridiculous. At least fingerprinting isn't $180 like it used to be!

 

[The Expert]

I hope the test run goes well!

 

[Herding_Cats]

I hope the test run goes well!

Girl, SAME.

Things have started feeling better, and I don't have the random aches throughout the day, but I can also recognize that in addition to doing all of the exercises my PT has given me, that I have been less active now that XC has kind of wrapped up and I'm not running or power walking around fields or standing on an industrial kitchen floor for 6-8 hours at a time.

 

[nancipants]

I hope everything works out for you!

 

[Herding_Cats]

Training "run" report:

Holy crap am I out of shape. I mean....I know it'll come back, and assuming my achilles continue to improve, I'll be good enough for mw. But wow. I can definitely tell it's been awhile. Also, new shoes feel weird on the feet.

The face my PT made yesterday at the end of my session when I looked at her and said, "I want you to know that I'm going to run tomorrow. Because I'm just over 60 days from a marathon, and less than 2 weeks from basketball games" was exactly what I thought it was going to be. Basically from her. I promised to stop if it hurt. I reassured her it would be like 2 miles, and that I am not the crazy person who would just take a bunch of motrin and go bananas. (I was that person this summer.) She suggested that I do the exercises we've been working on to get things warmed up, and to do my 5min walk before I started running.

The good: It didn't hurt. There was some very minor achiness at the beginning, but it went away.

The bad: Since I stopped at 30min, in an effort to ease back in and not set myself back, I also did 30min on the spin bike. I hate the spin bike. I probably feel about it the way people feel about treadmills.

Bonus explanation of what she thinks my issue(s) giving me problems is: anterior pelvic tilt has led to long and weak hamstrings + short and weak hip flexors. And that the APT is making my weight shift forward, which is turning my calf muscles "on" all the time and making them super tight. She had me do elevated single leg glute bridges yesterday and they were so much harder than they should have been. So yeah. Posterior chain is all wacky.


In tangential news, we changed our flight to orlando to arrive 5 hours sooner, redid some of our park planning and therefore dining reservations to make more sense, and yeah. Now I we get to go to MK on the first day for a few hours, kick the trip off with crying at the fireworks, and help Monday's plan make significantly more sense.