2014

[marathondan]

1.5 miles last night on pavement - my favourite conditions; late night, rain, street lamps and occasional car lights lighting up the dirty puddles. I'm proudly heel-striking now, feeling the twin airbags of the bulbous Asics Gel heels soaking up every kilonewton impact, the foot rolling forward through every step to protect those tendons. Out of interest I timed my cadence - back down to 160, which is much more natural for me than the forced 180 I was running last year.

The tendon is most definitely not fully healed, and doesn't seem to be progressing. But if I can do a gentle 10 miles a week without affecting it, that will at least keep my low-level fitness at tickover. Podiatrist in a couple of weeks, then probably back to the GP to look at other options. Even if one of those options is to do nothing more for a while.

Anyway, I've only done a couple of tiny runs, so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. The runs were pretty damn great though.