Shoes + heel-to-toe gel/foam insole + gel 'toe bed' + minimal use of 'toe bandages' + shoelaces loose + top shoelaces tight = painless smooth running?
Sat night Feb 14, I ran the outdoors Main & Moody streets five-mile course again with the first third and fifth miles jogged and the second and fourth miles walked. Time was 96 minutes. Foot-wear ingredients: same as Friday Feb 13, but with 'Profoot' brand toe-tubes added to middle and index toes of left foot and big toe of right foot--result being toe tubes on middle index and big toes of both feet.
The run Sat night Feb 14 was very pleasurable and relaxing, sort of like being half asleep out on the sea at night, without a care in the world, and with the weather just right; this was partly due to the weather which was perfect for jogging in the heavy winter coat and the sweatshirt combined--for the first time in years I felt like, as I breathed in the air...'ah...New England air...love it!". For a few days prior I had not consumed any alcohol.
The relaxed pleasure was also due to the fact that tonight I knew that I would be able to jog all the miles in my natural way feeling little or zero pain, ball of foot and heel hitting the ground almost simultaneously, forefoot sort of slapping the ground. And that's what I did, jog my natural way the whole time. For me there is relaxed exuberance in jogging in my own natural way.
The weather was: 29 degrees fahrenheit, wind calm 0-3 mph, delightful cool wind gusts of 3-7 mph, humidity 49-52 percent, no rainfall, barometric pressure 29.85.
Apparently the wind direction was from the northwest, from inland Canada, even though it felt like it was coming in from the Atlantic ocean as fresh as an 'Old Spice' commercial. At least I can glory in the idea that the wind that felt so good on my face and in my lungs, was from the North pole of our planet, land of Santa Klaus.
Air quality index during the run was listed as good, possible pollutants being ozone and pm 2.
( http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMAWESTO6&month=2&day=15&year=2009 ) ( http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=02451 ).
The lesson learned today in foot-wear was that adding toe-tubes to toes that do not hurt can produce pain that did not exist before the toe-tubes were added, this despite the fact that toe-tubes can work wonderful pain-alleviation when they are needed.
As soon as I started jogging Saturday night Feb 14, I knew that I was going to have a problem with the excess toe padding on the left foot constricting and twisting the toes. Second half of the third mile jogged I felt pain in the middle and index toes of the left foot, toes in which I had never or rarely felt pain before, toes that I had anyway put toe-tubes on for the night, as an experiment.
Sant night Feb 14, I added the toe tubes to the middle and index toes of the left foot and the big toe of the right foot, because I wanted to be symmetric, have both feet the same way; I was so impressed with the way my right foot felt on Feb 13 that on Feb 14 I wanted everything on the left foot to be the same as the right foot was Feb 13.
As of now certain thoughts re the hyper-symmetrical approach come to mind: plenty of symmetry is already present because the left and right shoe are identical twins--in fact, maybe excessively identical given the wonders of modern technology; machines like jet airplanes are perfectly symmetrical, but that does not mean that the clothes footwear etc a human wears should be perfectly symmetrical; humans tend to be left or right handed and footed as opposed to ambidextrous; the human face is not symmetrical; the left breast in the human female is generally larger than the right breast.
During the Saturday Feb 14 run, for both left and right feet I had the spaces between the flaps on the shoelaces at 32 16ths of an inch--two inches-- for the 3rd and 5th shoe lace pairs and at 48 16ths of an inch--three inches--for the top 6th shoe-lace-hole pair. This is what the setting were for the right foot Friday night Feb 13. During the run Sat night Feb 14, the situation in the left foot was much improved compared to the previous night in terms of the numbness, tingliness and feelings of unevenness in the sole of the left foot.
I now estimate that the wise thing to do for next run is to get rid of the toe-tubes that were placed on toes that had never felt pain, and to combine this with the shoes not being tied too tight. Excess of padding and shoe-laces drawn too tight both have the same effect of creating excess constriction of the foot.
The toe tubes added Saturday night Feb 14, that were not used the previous night, were 'Profoot'brand 'toe bandages' ( http://www.profootcare.com/p-toe-bandages.html ), price $4.71 with tax at Walgreens, package contained three 4 inch tubes. These 'Profoot' brand toe tubes are less expensive than the CVS brand toe-tubes (which CVS calls toe-bandages), but they do not come in three sizes in one package like the CVS brand--they are all the same size.
The 'Profoot' brand toe tubes seem thicker than the CVS toe tubes and too big for the middle and index toes though appropriate for the big toe.
The 'Profoot' brand toe tubes seem to be more resilient to wear and tear than the CVS toe tubes; but the CVS toe tubes coming in different sizes appear to be the better choice for use on the middle and index toe because they take up less space in the shoe.
Saturday night Feb 14th, there was a slight annoyance of looseness in the heel, which probably results in less efficient use of physical energy. I estimate this can be corrected by tightening up the top shoe-lace pair and the one below it, while keeping the lower shoelace pairs loose.
It somewhat grieves my heart that although there are hundreds of different models of running shoes, I could not find one running shoe with the high ankles, as in basketball shoes. I estimate that the laces on the high ankles could be used to tighten up the heel area looseness which is created due to an approach that involves looseness in the ball of the foot area.
After all, army boots have the high ankles. The great boxer of old times Cassius Clay, who changed his name to Muhammad Ali, used to train for his fights by jogging in army boots.
@2009 David Virgil Hobbs
The run Sat night Feb 14 was very pleasurable and relaxing, sort of like being half asleep out on the sea at night, without a care in the world, and with the weather just right; this was partly due to the weather which was perfect for jogging in the heavy winter coat and the sweatshirt combined--for the first time in years I felt like, as I breathed in the air...'ah...New England air...love it!". For a few days prior I had not consumed any alcohol.
The relaxed pleasure was also due to the fact that tonight I knew that I would be able to jog all the miles in my natural way feeling little or zero pain, ball of foot and heel hitting the ground almost simultaneously, forefoot sort of slapping the ground. And that's what I did, jog my natural way the whole time. For me there is relaxed exuberance in jogging in my own natural way.
The weather was: 29 degrees fahrenheit, wind calm 0-3 mph, delightful cool wind gusts of 3-7 mph, humidity 49-52 percent, no rainfall, barometric pressure 29.85.
Apparently the wind direction was from the northwest, from inland Canada, even though it felt like it was coming in from the Atlantic ocean as fresh as an 'Old Spice' commercial. At least I can glory in the idea that the wind that felt so good on my face and in my lungs, was from the North pole of our planet, land of Santa Klaus.
Air quality index during the run was listed as good, possible pollutants being ozone and pm 2.
( http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMAWESTO6&month=2&day=15&year=2009 ) ( http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=02451 ).
The lesson learned today in foot-wear was that adding toe-tubes to toes that do not hurt can produce pain that did not exist before the toe-tubes were added, this despite the fact that toe-tubes can work wonderful pain-alleviation when they are needed.
As soon as I started jogging Saturday night Feb 14, I knew that I was going to have a problem with the excess toe padding on the left foot constricting and twisting the toes. Second half of the third mile jogged I felt pain in the middle and index toes of the left foot, toes in which I had never or rarely felt pain before, toes that I had anyway put toe-tubes on for the night, as an experiment.
Sant night Feb 14, I added the toe tubes to the middle and index toes of the left foot and the big toe of the right foot, because I wanted to be symmetric, have both feet the same way; I was so impressed with the way my right foot felt on Feb 13 that on Feb 14 I wanted everything on the left foot to be the same as the right foot was Feb 13.
As of now certain thoughts re the hyper-symmetrical approach come to mind: plenty of symmetry is already present because the left and right shoe are identical twins--in fact, maybe excessively identical given the wonders of modern technology; machines like jet airplanes are perfectly symmetrical, but that does not mean that the clothes footwear etc a human wears should be perfectly symmetrical; humans tend to be left or right handed and footed as opposed to ambidextrous; the human face is not symmetrical; the left breast in the human female is generally larger than the right breast.
During the Saturday Feb 14 run, for both left and right feet I had the spaces between the flaps on the shoelaces at 32 16ths of an inch--two inches-- for the 3rd and 5th shoe lace pairs and at 48 16ths of an inch--three inches--for the top 6th shoe-lace-hole pair. This is what the setting were for the right foot Friday night Feb 13. During the run Sat night Feb 14, the situation in the left foot was much improved compared to the previous night in terms of the numbness, tingliness and feelings of unevenness in the sole of the left foot.
I now estimate that the wise thing to do for next run is to get rid of the toe-tubes that were placed on toes that had never felt pain, and to combine this with the shoes not being tied too tight. Excess of padding and shoe-laces drawn too tight both have the same effect of creating excess constriction of the foot.
The toe tubes added Saturday night Feb 14, that were not used the previous night, were 'Profoot'brand 'toe bandages' ( http://www.profootcare.com/p-toe-bandages.html ), price $4.71 with tax at Walgreens, package contained three 4 inch tubes. These 'Profoot' brand toe tubes are less expensive than the CVS brand toe-tubes (which CVS calls toe-bandages), but they do not come in three sizes in one package like the CVS brand--they are all the same size.
The 'Profoot' brand toe tubes seem thicker than the CVS toe tubes and too big for the middle and index toes though appropriate for the big toe.
The 'Profoot' brand toe tubes seem to be more resilient to wear and tear than the CVS toe tubes; but the CVS toe tubes coming in different sizes appear to be the better choice for use on the middle and index toe because they take up less space in the shoe.
Saturday night Feb 14th, there was a slight annoyance of looseness in the heel, which probably results in less efficient use of physical energy. I estimate this can be corrected by tightening up the top shoe-lace pair and the one below it, while keeping the lower shoelace pairs loose.
It somewhat grieves my heart that although there are hundreds of different models of running shoes, I could not find one running shoe with the high ankles, as in basketball shoes. I estimate that the laces on the high ankles could be used to tighten up the heel area looseness which is created due to an approach that involves looseness in the ball of the foot area.
After all, army boots have the high ankles. The great boxer of old times Cassius Clay, who changed his name to Muhammad Ali, used to train for his fights by jogging in army boots.
@2009 David Virgil Hobbs
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