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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: January 2nd, 2023
  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoRunning@lemmy.world•How to prevent foot and knee pain after running?
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    2 months ago

    There’s two main culprits for runners knee.

    If you have suddenly increased the distance you run, you may need to ease back, and do a gradual increase instead, which gives your muscles and soft tissue time to adapt to your increased load.

    Otherwise, it’s often a gait issue. Ankles that roll inwards or outwards too much etc can cause torsion pain. In this case, it means better shoes, and ideally, shoes that address the issues with your gait. The thing about gait issues is that in the day to day, we don’t even know the imbalances are there, but when you start running a lot, the increased strike rate and strike strength means issues can start to show up. In my case, I need shoes with support that stop my left ankle from rolling inwards.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLemmy@lemmy.ml•Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"English
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    2 months ago

    That’s exactly where I’m at. I don’t align with a lot of the choices Rimu makes for Piefed, but I am 100% for him designing a tool that works for him, even when the defaults he chooses don’t align with my preferences. As long as I have the option to disable/change them as an admin, then I’d rather see a passionate dev creating tools that they want to use than a burned out dev creating something their heart isn’t invested in.

    Unfortunately, tesseract isn’t that…

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoRunning@lemmy.world•For those who had covid symtoms for some time, how did you get back in shape to run?
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    2 months ago

    I’ve reached the age where I’m starting to noticably slow down and things are getting harder, I’ve had pneumonia a couple of times, a bunch of surgeries, and possibly covid in the middle of it.

    If I’m honest, I’ve not got back to where I was, and I likely never will. And it’s been really demotivating, meaning that I’ll pause my runs, and lose momentum if I’m not careful.

    What worked for me was making sure it wasn’t just me. I encourage my partner to come out for a walk when I run, so that we can push each other in to moving. I also set myself an event to train for, and once I’ve done it in a few weeks, I’ll set myself another event, even if it’s a year away, and use an app/plan to give me some structure to my training.

    I have particularly relied on TrainAsOne, as it adjusts with my fitness, but honestly, any sort of plan that gives you an actual plan, will help when it comes to sustaining your momentum.

    All of that being said, I’m typing this, after having put off my scheduled run because it’s cold outside. But as soon as I’ve sent this, I’m going to and get dressed and run. And having put that out there in a world, now, I’ll actually do it :)