Re: Training Week Ending April 1, 2007

"Charlie Pendejo" <Charlie.Pendejo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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MarkH wrote:
I'm fighting something with similar symptoms. It's in a tendon or
a muscle running along the arch and gets quite painful if I tie my
shoelaces too tight.

Hmmm - do you suppose tight shoelaces caused the injury, or just puts
enough pressure on it to elicit pain?

I also have problems with the track. As I've mentioned before, it
seems that my splay-footed mechanics (sometimes worse, sometimes
better... I'm really leaning toward going for a round of rolfing /
Hellerwork / structural integration and hoping that fixes some of my
stuff) don't like the curves. Picture feet splayed like \ / going

I don't know what others would say, but I'd have to think that splayed feet
would get your knees (and other areas) into trouble eventually also. It
indicates to me a chronic alignment problem. Pete Egoscue suggests that the
relative inactivity of modern life, including sitting much of the time leads
to weaknesses and imbalances in the body. In his Pain Free book chapter on
knees he says:

"Aside from Pain, the two most recognizable symptoms of knee problems appear
in the feet and the kneecaps. Everted feet are evidence that the kinetic
chain linking the ankles, knees, hips, and shoulders has been broken. The
knees are on their own. In many cases, only one foot will be turned out, or
both will, but at different angles. It depends on what the individual is
trying to do with the dysfunctional body". [Trying to do in the sense of the
body coping with the dysfuntion].

He's suggesting that splayed feet are not natural, but indicate misaligned
hips, etc. In my case, even though my hip "went out" on my long run last
Saturday (because I was inattentive to my stretches), my hip problem is
lightyears better than a few years ago when I was running with constant low
grade hip pain, and occasional severe pain from inflammation.

The main stretch that helps me (when I do it almost daily) is Egoscue's
"supine groin stretch" designed to "tame the powerful muscles that run along
the inside of your thighs". Normally it takes 10-15 mintues on each side,
but he says "At first, it ccould take as long as forty-five mintutes a side
to release the hold the groin muscles have on the leg. I briefly described
this stretch elsewhere in this thread.

-Tony

around a curve in the standard CCW direction: the right foot is not
aligned straight with the direction of travel - there's a large
perpendicular component. So the weight traveling over it during the
plant phase is also moving at a significant angle. This makes my
dodgy hip/glute/upper ham area unhappy; I minimize it by running in
lanes 7 and 8. And by not going to the track too often.

For my own PF (or whatever, but it sure seems like PF), I'm not
certain of the culprit but gonna try making the easiest changes
first. Starting with eliminating my Fila Flow Redemption trainer from
the rotation. It's got a super high arch, and I've got pretty flat
feet. The shoe was uncomfortable the first run or two, forcing much
of my weight to the outsides of my feet for the first mile or two of
the first few runs. I thought I'd acclimated but perhaps not, and
perhaps that massive arch overstretches some of my footy bits.

For good measure I'll keep out of my other LWT too (Nike Hayward) and
just stick with the Free and a few pair of flats for a while, see if
that changes anything. I've read plenty of people claim that flats
caused their PF, and plenty more claim that flats cured it. My
superstitions tinged with just a bit of experience lead me toward more
faith in less shoe.



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