This week in Running - aches, pains and hot pink running shoes

Weekly Kms : 35 ish + Hills

This has not been a great week running wise. I have felt slow and sluggish.  My hip is sore, which is making my IT band sore. Blah. And my other knee was sore. Double blah. Two things I have pin pointed:

• I haven't changed shoes since before the Gold Coast. In July. Ummm. Stuff up on my part! No wonder I feel sore, I may as well be running in a pair of Volleys!
• I have been trying a Tabata weight workout a few times a week. It's not for me. I think the likelihood of injury is enormous. Even with good technique I am getting aches and pains of the precursor-to-injury variety. So I am going back to the usual 2-3 sets of 10-12 reps with heavier weight.

So I have a "vibrant" new pair of shoes to wear in. As soon as I put them on I thought "Well these are really cushiony". Umm , no, idiot your other shoes are completely stuffed because you forgot to change pairs and offer approximately zero cushioning and support. Derr. I am not fussed on the pink but I don't really care what my shoes look like.

I did the usual type runs this week. Long run was 15.4 km and it actually felt ok, though I was completely cactus afterwards! I have been fairly disappointed with my efforts at parkrun for a while now. I don't seem to have any spark. I don't know how much of that is because of the heat of Summer and how much is because I am running crap at the moment. It was my turn to push the kids this week and the last km was just dire.  Little old ladies with walking frames could have taken me.

Hopefully things start to look up soon. I am still enjoying my runs, just not going very fast!

Lily