I have been doing a little research on my injury and the causes.<\/p>\n
This led me to investigate the different heel toes drops of my various running shoes. I was of the belief that they were all pretty much the same. I knew that my ASICS, Salomon and Brooks all had a 10mm heel to toe drop.<\/p>\n
Today’s research confirmed this except for the new Sauconys, they have a 4mm drop. I’m pretty sure the guy in the shop said they had a 10mm drop, which is why I was happy to go for a 30km in them straight up. If I’d known they were 6mm different I would have started off with a few much shorter runs.<\/p>\n
When I was in the shop looking for new trail shoes I first tried on a pair of Invo-8 shoes which felt very heel down and weird, the guy said they were a low drop, 0 or 4mm. I said I didn’t want to go through the hassle of changing drop at this stage, with a marathon coming up change is bad. He grabbed out the Peregrines because they were apparently a higher drop. They felt better but in hindsight probably because overall they have a thicker sole, and I had after all just been walking around in another low drop \u00a0shoe so they wouldn’t have felt so weird. But as it turns out they have a 4mm drop which is the same drop as the Invo-8 shoes.<\/p>\n
So now I’m wondering if they have contributed to the injury. There is a fair gap between the 30km trail run in the Peregrines and the injury showing up. But I guess it could have aggravated things.<\/p>\n
These are the longer runs leading up to the injury, there are a number of shorter runs including track sessions and road running in between them.<\/p>\n
20 Aug – 30km in 4mm drop Sauconys<\/p>\n
27 Aug – 21km in 10mm – Race<\/p>\n
30 Aug – 13km in 10mm<\/p>\n
31 Aug – Bicycle ride – Ouch<\/p>\n
I assume that the bike shoes have a 0mm drop as (I assume) it’s not important once clipped in. In fact bike shoes without a sole at the heel would have a negative drop when walking due to the clip mechanism at the front.<\/p>\n
With the 30km of trails to aggravate it, then with the higher km of marathon training to not let it heal, followed by walking a little bit in bike shoes and maybe even starting the ride on a hill, might have tipped it over the edge.<\/p>\n
Currently it’s taped to relieve some of the stress on it and I have some ankle strengthening exercises to do, as well as icing, foam rolling and massage. No running for 48 hours after seeing the therapist. Then I’ll start with a slow flat 5km run to see how it feels.<\/p>\n
26 days until Chicago marathon. Not panicking at all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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