I’ve been running a lot. This is a good thing. My latest invention is the gentle ‘plod’ style running which I convert to when my legs are really tired. This is instead of the ‘tempo’ style I usually run which is quite fast, though I get fatigued quite quickly with it. Also, when running with the usual mode(tempo), I tend to activate most of the muscles in my leg and particular my calves – because I run on my toes and move my legs quite quickly. With the ‘plod’ style, I slow down and don’t move my leg so fast and instead of quickly adjusting my weight from one leg to the other in mid stride – I focus heavily on each stride and the weight slowly switches from side to side with each ‘plod’.

Anyway that's my technical answer for fatigued legs. I also tend to run a lot longer.

Yesterday I did my weekly run from home into the office and it wasn’t as tough as the previous week. I did it in average time – 45 mins:

According to my stats, I suffered just a much as last week but I can tell you, I didn’t.  And my pace was about the same too. I guess it was just a mental thing combined with how I “felt”.

I’ve also cut back a lot in terms of total running. I used to average 80+ km per week before my holiday and then after I got injured I obviously decreased and while decreasing I’ve upped by gym training in its place and I kinda like the change of focus. So now I’m running about 40-45 Km’s a week – about half. I think that’s OK.