Training Log Archive: Wyatt

3x / day I'm doing the foot drills (funny walk) 80 steps of each, followed by stepping on the hard rubber bouncy ball (much like a squash ball) - and this seems to be helping.

Sleeping, I've got tight socks I often wear (though have to take them off sometimes), and I occasionally (start/end, sometimes when I wake) wrap the blanket around my feet in a way to pull the toes up and calf-stretched - which seems to help - getting out of bed in the morning is much better this week than last - somtimes it barely hurts at all more in the morning than it does generally.

Last week, if I sat for 1 hour at work, standing up was pretty sore. By today, I no longer dread standing after sitting. Feet are sometimes a bit more sore, but not much more than just walking.

Approximately 1x / day, I'm doing eccentric calf drops - on step, 2-legs up, 1-leg down) - about 20e on non-race days, 10-15e on race days.

On this 4th day of racing, I'm still being quite careful on not pushing - finish chute times have been terrible - I'm only passing people who walk. Everyone who runs passes me some quickly, some moderately. Am hitting about double Keegan's finish chute time.

Oringen Day 3 - feet both sore, but stable enough to shuffle along moderately, in forest that was quite soft more of the time and navigated well except for one 2.5 minute costly overshoot, and a 30-sec in circle offset just before - and landed just under 10 min/km :)

I think to recover, I'll need to find a Swedish marsh near my home to do my running on, as that's physically possible to run 2 miles in, get a fair workout, and not smash the feet much...

C • O-Ringen video 4

Event: ORingen 2022
 

O-Ringen Warmup & Day 1.

After shuffling around painfully for a few days - e.g. 8:30/km pace for a run on urban park grass yesterday still being sore - I didn't know if I'd do more than walk this.

Had over 3km to the start to think about this, and practice running in the grass in tight O' shoes, and every gravel trail was bad. Rooty, muddy forest was better on the warmup.

Decided to try jogging the course slow, and made it carefully around - pleasantly surprised that the feet didn't get worse.

Open Swedish marshes - basically like running on a 1 foot thick sponge - was great. Pretty much zero pain on that.

Mossy forests were mixed, but still much better than pavement. Even with the occasional hard bang of the feet (though, due to toe-landing safety, only occasionally hard on the heel) this worked, and I shuffled through.

Over the following 3 race days, my feet somehow got slightly less bad - though I'm still quite foot-pain limited, not cardio tired at all.