I’ve had a rather eventful past weekend. I headed down to London early Saturday morning to attend the ‘Meet the Experts’ weekend hosted by the organisers of the London Marathon. This was basically a day of presentations from various marathon organisers, experts and former 10,000m world record holder David Beford, and the Olympic marathon runner, Liz Yelling.
The day had a rather bizarre ‘Harry Jogger’ theme and were given advice from a variety of ‘Jogwarts’ (get it!?) professors dressed in wizarding robes and wigs! Despite the somewhat dubious jokes, the day was both entertaining and informative. I'll fill you in on the most interesting bits on my next post.
There was also an Adidas stall where you could get your gait scanned to see what kind of running shoe you should be wearing. I knew from previous fittings that I over pronate slightly, meaning that my feet roll inwards as I run. If you don’t wear the correct kind of shoes this can result in pain and injury. For the scan I was required to run up and down a hall occasionally landing on a sensor which measured the angle and impact my foot hit the ground at. It was difficult to replicate my normal running style as I had to run barefoot and the floor was extremely slippery, but after a few attempts we got a usable reading.
The scan thankfully confirmed that I have been wearing the correct shoes for the past year, though my gait is completely different on each foot. Whilst my right heavily pronates, my left foot has a perfect, efficient neutral stride. There was 30% off running shoes that day, and as I will need to replace my current shoes towards the end of March, I brought myself some new ones!
By far the most attractive running shoes I have owned so far!
After the presentations had finished I headed over to Shepherds Bush to watch a play with one of my oldest friends, Yasamin. The play was called 'Our New Girl', I would definitely recommend watching it if you are in the area. The play finished at 10pm and we began to make our way home. However the snow had other ideas...What should have been a simple journey ended up with us being stranded outside in the freezing cold until 4am as the entire London transport system had shut down! Not a good end to the night. By the time we finally made it back to Greenwich our feet were soaked through with the freezing cold snow and we were beginning to lose all feeling. Not the greatest end to the night!
I'm now off to the gym to do some hill training on the treadmill (it's bloody freezing outside), see you on Thursday for some tips from the weekends presentations and more tales from my training!
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