Goals: Ramp up volume after recovering from bad cold through the holidays.
- 2 x Zone 2
- Distance: 29.32 km
- Time: 2:53:58
- Load: 192
- Calories: 2560 calories
- Elevation gain: 252 m
Given the circumstances it was a decent first week. To begin with it was a short week due to the year starting on a Thursday. Then snowstorms on Thursday and Saturday left two days remaining for running. I was still ramping up volume from being sick, and did a 17km run on Thur Jan 2 which ended up being a confirmation that the cold was finally behind me. Then did an early 12km morning run while at a cottage on Sunday Jan 4, braving remote country roads completely new to me. That was the first time ever I’ve run in proper beard-gets-icey conditions, although I have cross-country skied in worse.
I also made a breakthrough in figuring out how to tackle my right foot plantar fascia(ish) discomfort. The hypothesis is that it’s my Superfeet Med Arch insoles that are causing it, even if I’ve worn them in all my shoes for 9+ months.
I took a late night walk in my Hoka Challenger 7 ATRs with (Merrell Moab) stock insoles on Friday Jan 2, and I had less discomfort than I had when walking barefoot around the apartment (residual discomfort from the run that day). And then ran with the same setup on Sunday Jan 4 with no discomfort, other than expected blistering in the arch. Previous sessions have led to 2-3/10 discomfort in the plantar fascia by or before km 8, but with the stock insoles I didn’t even get a post-run bloom after the run.
The breakthrough came from feeding the detailed daily notes I’ve left in the health logging app I built to Gemini, and discussing it. This kind of use case is exactly why I built the app.
