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So fed up. After a great summer of 5k Parkrun results I am enduring my 13th week of injury. For the 2nd week in a row I retired after 2k. Bummer ....
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a26480398/how-nike-vaporfly-4-percent-work/
Might be less biased than Nike’s own blurb.
I’ve got Brooks Glycerin 17s
https://www.brooksrunning.com/en_gb/glycerin-17-mens-running-shoe/110296.html
If anyone hasn’t yet and is running I’d highly recommend getting their gait analysed and spending money on decent shoes. I did it before even starting as I was that concerned about an old knee injury reoccurring.
You wouldn’t put remoulds or cheap ditchfinder tyres on your car. It’s the same with your feet - get some decent rubber on there.
Took me 11mins on Wednesday, I was that knackered.
I’m aiming to get that to sub 6mins by mid feb.
we will see!
Thought it was hard work.
Then I realised that I'd just done day 3 of week 3, when I should have done day 1 of week 3.
Rest of the week should be easy ...
I'm doing all of mine on a treadmill, but it's on a 4deg/5deg incline, so I'm always going uphill. Thought if I start off doing that, then it's going to be easy whenever I run on the flat (I'm in Norfolk)
I’ll probably revisit this thread in 3-6 months time and see if I’ve kept it up, am injury free and have managed to get sub 25 min!
Same training routine planned for next week so we'll see if I can stretch next Sunday's run to 8km. I was managing 10km at the start of December hoping to be back there by the end of January.
As I live in a hilly area I had the idea of using a steeper incline so I'd be used to the hills when venturing out. All I really did was make it much harder than I had to and hit a brick wall around week 5 or 6 (whenever the first 20+ run is). I'm not necessarily saying reduce the incline but if you start finding the longer runs hard it's something you can look at changing. Speed and power can come later, it's mainly your lungs and heart you're working on when you first start out.
If your treadmill doesn't tell you what the incline is I'd get a spirit level app for your phone. I don't know how accurate they are but it'll give you an idea.