Haven't posted much because until recently haven't run much. Having more or less successfully completed 9 months of exercise physiology and major changes to my gait and stride I can now run pain free. The weird thing is that I can't both maintain correct posture, gait and stride and my breathing all at the same time. So its kind of a best 3 out of 4 at any one time.
I'm at the very end of the walk run rehab portion of my recovery where I tend to walk a bit every 12-15 minutes which isn't a lot different before I saw the doc in early 2015 after lumbering through a painful and not that fun New Orleans half-marathon with Matt Sag.
Three nice things to report running wise. About a month ago, I finished the Chicago half in just under my lousy New Orleans but pain free, running better, and enjoying it more.
Second, I took advantage of a heavy domestic travel schedule and I ran in Little Rock, Providence, New Orleans, and Chicago all in a 12 day period! My main take away from this is that Little Rock has its River Run half right and man is Providence hilly. Also fun to rerun the last half of the New Orleans actually enjoying it compared to January.
Finally, best wishes to Matt Sag who is running NYC this weekend for his third marathon in the past 7 weeks. Truly inspired and crazy even by the standards of this esteemed blog.
That is great to hear!!! Welcome back. I understand the bit about breathing. That will come with practice. Also, in the cool toy department, consider getting one of the new Garmins that measure cadence and vertical displacement. Those are both good bits of data about form.
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