After my last post I had two real, real easy weeks. Life was busy. The little guy's sleep took some adjusting to the time change. The wife was out of town a lot taking away my mornings. Oh well. It happens.
Kept up knee strengthening exercises and my minor knee injury, plica syndrome most likely, is slowly fading. Had a 30 plus mile week last week and going for the same this week, slowly building back up. It's been fun running early again but challenging getting back to routine.
Been exceedingly tired for some reason. Sleep has been normal. Possibly the consistent early mornings and adjusting to running more. I'm not losing weight so I'm not too concerned about calories however it's easy to eat more so I'll start with that! With the sheer volume of vegetables I eat it's also easy to go into a calorie deficit.
Through work I got a new fun toy. The Milestone Pod, see it on my shoe in the photo. It's a tiny pod that attaches to your shoe laces and only costs around $30! It's completely independent of your phone, running on a watch battery, and starts automatically with movement. When you are finished runnng you sync it via Bluetooth to a phone app. It's not only a tracker (miles, pace, etc., no mapping) but most importantly it recognizes and records some key running metrics for monitoring technique! Cadence, stride length, leg swing, foot strike, impact force, ground contact. I think that's it. The cool thing is you can see this and then consider it when running in order to improve you technique.
Have a couple races in the near future. A new half marathon in January at the Wyre Forest and a 50km trail race, in March, that tours around the Black Country outside of Birmingham. Both close to home, both on Sundays so I won't miss work! The Black Country race is really cool as it goes through one of, if not the, longest canal tunnel in the UK. The Netherton Tunnel! Headlamp required during the day! Here's the Wikipedia:
Pretty rad!
