My birthday is not for a couple of weeks, but spending birthday money already! Woo hoo!!.
First up was a new GPS jobba, I have been using Strava for ages on my phone, and it seems to track a little widly. So seeings as I have to ensure I run at the “right” speed now, to see if I can run further, it made perfect sense to get something accurate – so I did. I got an Ambit 3 Sport, after reading about a million reviews. I almost got the Garmin 910, but that’s a little old now, and many reviews said it took ages to find a gps lock – that would have just made me cross. It’s great it does loads of stuff I will never use, but the track is perfect, it does show though, that mostly my LG phone was actually pretty accurate most of the time…
Next thing was new shoes, my old ASICS have probably had about 700 miles on them now, so popped down to Run and Become in Cardiff on Saturday to get some new ones. They are supposed to watch you run and tell you what to get, our serving wench seemed a little new, and quiet, but noticed my “mild over-pronation” and gave me a few to try. I picked the GT1000-4, which I found later were considerable more in the shop than I could have bought them for on-line, but then I was paying for the advice I suppose.
Went to give them a test out today, a 7 mile run, out to Redwick and back, with my new pace-man, my wife. I figured that having someone else would keep my speed down and also my knee in check – that didn’t really work out. Felt really good up until about 4 miles, then I left her and went down the track, almost immediately my knee started hurting again, I stopped and stretched – then it was fine a a minute, then sore again. It is really getting on my tits. So managed to get around the remaining 3 miles and it wasn’t as bad as before, but it does hurt too much. I will really need to see someone, or strengthen my legs to get it working – it’s so frustrating as I was “fit” enough to run round again, but my knee wouldn’t have let me. Annoyed.
Miles: 20ish
Beers: 10 stella.