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 Glad everyone is still progressing.

Injury was diagnosed as peroneal tendonitis.The physio gave me a little ultrasound and advised on a stretch that would help. They also arranged for me to have a quick (free) appoinyment with a podiatrist. The podiatrist checked me over to make sure that there wasn't any underlying reason for the injury. He did say that I had inverted feet but not to the extent that it would be responsible for the injury. He advised that I would benefit from wearing supportive footwear such as trainers or regular shoes rather than spending the day barefoot or in slippers when at home.

It's just over two weeks now and the pain has all but gone. I'm going to give it a few more days before trying a run. I think I'll take a step back down the schedule ladder to the run 3 min / walk 1 min x 6 stage. I don't see any point in pushing it, that would be just asking for the injury to come back.

I'm itching to get back out there.

Aaarrrrgggg - injury.

Not posted for a couple of weeks.

Things were progressing nicely. I'd moved up to Run 5 Walk 2 x 4. Then last weekend I suddenly developed a very sore foot the day after a run. Extremely painful along sole of my foot on the outside.

Pain is bad in a morning but gets easier during the day to the point where there is hardly any pain at all.

Off to the Physio tomorrow, so I'll see what they have to say.

Hope everyone else is doing OK.

Nam wrote (see)

Right... HalHigdon's newbie 5k plan has me down for a gentle 1.5 miles today and I shall shuffle those after my spin class tonight.

How's everyone?

Rivvy Runner, that's Rivington Pike isn't it.    I have many nice memories of walking around the pike, Winter Hill, Two Lads etc. I take it you live up there?

Hi Nam,

yes that's Rivington Pike, I live about five miles away.

I'd love to be able to build up my running so that I can run there from home (and back again!).

Good to see that we're all sticking at it and getting there - slowly but surely.

I was away in the Lakes at the weekend doing a bit of hillwalking so wasn't able to get my runs in.

I've decided to do a couple more sessions of Run 3 / Walk 1 x 6 before moving up to the next level.

Went out last night , i tried to slow my running right down so that I felt more comfortable. It felt really good to have energy left.

One more session of this on Friday and thn it's up to Run 5 / Walk 2 x 4.

Keep at it.

Hi Nam,

 you mention six miles in your thread - is that a distance that you used to run regulalry and would normally want to run?

What stage are you at at the moment? If you feel that running for thirty minutes is within your capability and that you would not be overtsretching yourself, then you could have a go at the One Hour Runeer (OHR) program. It builds up gradually fover a number of weeks rom running thirty minutes to running for an hour and assumes that you run three times a week. If you stick to that program and are not tempted to push ahead too fast, then it may be a good way of make sure that you don't overdo it. Just google 'One Hour Runner'.

There are also a number of other schedules about that build from 5k to 10k over a number of weeks.

Let us know how you get on.