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« Reply #90 on: Monday, February 10, 2014, 19:44:16 »

Any decent running shop.  Run & Become is my favourite (despite the wanky name).  Good shops will have a specialist there as standard now who will be able to analyse your gait with the help of some technology and then recommend some decent footwear.

Word of advice, though.  Ask for 'trainers', and you'll get a withering look from them as if you'd just wandered in and laid one out on the shop floor.  It's 'running shoe' these days!   Grin
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« Reply #91 on: Monday, February 10, 2014, 19:46:48 »

Thanks Ardiles.  Ill be in asking for daps on wednesday.
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« Reply #92 on: Monday, February 10, 2014, 21:33:07 »

I'm really struggling to find some decent running routes currently. It's better that the brighter mornings are coming in though.

This morning I found myself in the middle of a field in deepest darkest Oxfordshire with no-one about. It was a bit eerie.
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« Reply #93 on: Monday, February 10, 2014, 22:04:27 »

Right, I know I could find this out by looking back but cant be arsed.  Where are you all recommending to get trainers?  I'm still using the old gym ones and need to get some properly fitted.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Run Swindon in Old Town - ask for Liam.  Avoid the Big Adventure place
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« Reply #94 on: Monday, February 10, 2014, 22:25:14 »

I went to Run Swindon in old town, did their analysis and paid a stupid amount for some trainers.

Went to the doctors last week with foot pain, the doctor ascribed it to having innapropriate running trainers.

Grrrrr.
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« Reply #95 on: Monday, February 10, 2014, 22:41:22 »

That's unusual for Run. If you go back I'm sure Liam would sort you out.

I don't find that Drs have a good enough knowledge of the full mechanics of running. I was once told it was ok to start running again after a calf injury only to find after getting a 2nd opinion my calf was indeed still fucked and I had another month of physio

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« Reply #96 on: Monday, February 10, 2014, 22:47:11 »

I went to Run Swindon in old town, did their analysis and paid a stupid amount for some trainers.

Went to the doctors last week with foot pain, the doctor ascribed it to having innapropriate running trainers.

Grrrrr.
Best way I find is to spend a bit of time trying them on, do as much running as you can on the treadmill in the shop, and just pick the pair that are most comfortable (scientific, eh?). I've done 'gait analysis' a few times and and spent a lot of time researching but the best pairs I've had are always just the ones that feel the best on.

Also there's a school of thought that the more cushioning you have, the more likely you are to suffer injuries, because it encourages you to heel strike. I noticed from pictures at the end of races that I used to heel strike quite badly, with my foot landing at an angle heel first with a straight leg. I always suffered a lot of niggly injuries (IT band usually) so switched to a forefoot strike last year with flatter less cushioned shoes, and so far have been injury free. Depends from person to person though I suppose.
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« Reply #97 on: Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 01:18:42 »

I went to Run Swindon in old town, did their analysis and paid a stupid amount for some trainers.

Went to the doctors last week with foot pain, the doctor ascribed it to having innapropriate running trainers.

Grrrrr.

You should take a leaf out of Abebe Bikila's book; he won the 1960 and 1964 Olympic marathons, running barefoot....if it happened now the Ethiopean capital would soon get rebranded Adidas Ababa
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« Reply #98 on: Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 07:13:55 »

Do any of you want to run with me? I get bored going on my own. I'm easy going distance and pace wise.
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« Reply #99 on: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 14:44:24 »

I did the running shop thing yesterday.  Went to the place in the corridor in bath, gait analysis, tried about 10 pairs and ran up and down outside in the corridor.  Apparently I'm relatively normal in terms of running, slightly turning in, no need for extra support.  Ended up with a pair of Brooks Ghosts or something like that.  They feel nice, very light and well supported.

Went out for the first time today did my fastest kilometre (4.50), fastest mile (8.07), fastest 5k (27.13) and fastest 10k (55.51)  Could have done it faster but around the 7k mark something twinged in my calf.  Just muscular I think.  Not the quickest times, but Im 42 and have only really been running 10 times properly timing myself. And then as I bent over to take my shoes of in my porch a passing pensioner in a 57 shades of beige anorak remarked 'oh, tempting'.  Dirty old mare.  I am irresistable to the pensioners of Chippenhham.

So two things of note for me, the proper shoe thing works, and avoid pensioners. 
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« Reply #100 on: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 14:49:41 »

If you are running 8 min miles that is very good.
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« Reply #101 on: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 14:53:16 »

That was only for one mile.  Average mile pace was 9 minutes.  Which I was still pretty pleased with.
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« Reply #102 on: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 15:32:04 »

Well done, on both the run and getting properly fitted. If you find you ache a bit differently than usual tomorrow then the shoes are working well  Grin
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« Reply #103 on: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 15:37:42 »

Well done, on both the run and getting properly fitted. If you find you ache a bit differently than usual tomorrow then the shoes are working well  Grin

Or he took up that offer from the guy in the mac!
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« Reply #104 on: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 15:42:19 »

Ha.  It was actually a women of the pensioner persuasion.  And I was to tired to take her in for a gumjob.
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