Of Mice and Marathons

A benchmark sounds like a good plan right now.

Yep. No sense trying to do anything typical as far as workouts and get hurt or get frustrated with the paces (I really don't feel like doing tempos above 3-hour marathon pace and I doubt I could knock out even 4 at that pace right now).

'Ballad of the Injured Runner':)

Nicely done on the shoes. I've seen those before, and some people's look like hack jobs. Your pair (well, at least one half of the pair) looks professionally done!

Bam: it's my justification for running so slow. I don't need to run 6:30 easy pace, but 9:30 on a treadmill kills me. I've been using my HR monitor as well, which I never do, but I think it will help boost confidence when the numbers drop.

Ballad of an Injury Runner goes something like: "Plodding along, plodding along. Ho, hum. Ho hum. I hope my hip doesn't punch me in the . . . " I forget the rest.

Thanks, Jake. This was a slight revision. You basically go where the wear patterns are. I generally do nothing more manual than type, but I can work with my hands when I want to.

You can see were I strike the lateral side of the right foot a bit (lug with two screw next to it).

Bam: You can see the result of a slightly splayed right leg you mentioned. As it turns out this is the foot that I have tweaked my peroneal tendon and the same leg that has hip issues. The splaying, I would argue is from driving cars. Take a look the the angle of your foot on the gas pedal next time you are driving. Now, adjust to correct and you will feel it in your glute medius.

Go to Letsrun:)

I think you might find that your tweaked peroneal is more likely a shortened peroneal due to a weak glute medius and piriformis, which in turn is responsible for your lateral tibial torsion, which in turn is causing your peroneals to shorten - it's easy to reset your peroneals: look up peroneals and positional release. If you don't sort this soon, you might end up with plantar faciitis!

Jay Johnson's myrtle workout will fix your hip problems.

This jogging lark's great fun:)

...Of course, lateral should have been external; I meant that your external tibial torsion might result in lateral plantar faciitis/achilles rupture:)