This was my first “long” run in a very long time. I hazard to call 13km “long,” but it’s much longer than I have done in a long time.<\/p>\n
But, something really, really weird happened during my run today<\/a>. I was really struggling for the first 6.5 km. My right foot went numb<\/strong> after a couple of kilometers as has been my chronic injury for months. I was hoping it has improved, but apparently not. I had to stop a lot and walk a lot. There were points where I was really frustrated and sad that running was so painful!<\/p>\n When I got to half-way, I decided to put my headphones in and listen to my iPod<\/strong> nano. And then something unexpected happened. I have no idea why, but the pain went away<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. I was running faster without the numbness pain that has plagued me for months. But I have no idea why! What black magic is this?<\/p>\n I have some theories though:<\/p>\n I really want to know why it made the running better. Am I just masking the pain and looking at a big fall later? Or have I been a wuss and this is finally helping me get through it?<\/p>\n So weird…<\/p>\n What do you think is happening to me? Do you listen to music when you run? Does it help?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This was my first “long” run in a very long time. I hazard to call 13km “long,” but it’s much longer than I have done in a long time. But, something really, really weird happened during my run today. I was really struggling for the first 6.5 km. My right foot went numb after a couple of kilometers as has been my chronic injury for months. I was hoping it has improved, but apparently not. I had to stop a lot and walk a lot. There were points where I was really frustrated and sad that running was so painful![…continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runfit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bj7K-BK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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