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Message: <blockquote data-quote="markyboy" data-source="post: 7109542" data-attributes="member: 7299">I’ve more than a few things wrong with me but, running wise, there are only two.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Breathing. A nice lady told me a few years back I showed storms of asthma. Only affects me running and running into the wind at that. Inhalers don’t alleviate it no matter what combination on them I use. On my regular run I can nearly point at the spot on the ground where I’ll start coughing and wheezing and it’s always into the wind. One of the main reasons this also happens is if I’m running quickly I’m gulping in more air which just exacerbated things even more. In other words a dose.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Broken ankle a year and a half ago. Took ages to get back running but my latest annoyance is my foot starts to go numb after about two and a half miles. Still have to go to the Physio about that but it’s possibly comportment syndrome. I did run seven miles one weekend when it was numb. It wasn’t numb afterwards. I don’t recommend it and haven’t done it since.</li> </ol>Those two things combined were getting me nowhere and I dreaded going out in even the slightest breeze. At the end of a run I’d be half limping with a heart rate going all over the place.So that brings me to where I am today. Three weeks ago I decided to give heart rate training a revisit to see if that would help. I tried it a few years back for a few months and I’d forgotten how effective it was for me.It does involve slowing way down to keep your heart rate down but because of that, my breathing is way less laboured. In addition I’m also changing from my heel striking to more mid-foot and that’s helping the numbness.The last time I tried this I went from eleven and a half minute miles to ten at zone 2 in six weeks. The downside is at the moment I’ve the pace of a horse doing dressage.Rant over.</blockquote>

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