Working On Left Big Toe

My left big toe was bugging me a little when I walked this morning so I was not sure how my run would turn out. When running, the weird thing about my toe is when it stops hurting it pretty much stops. There is no varying degree of pain; either it hurts or it does not.

I focused on Ground Contact Time Balance (GCTB) today. I kept trying to get it to at least L52:48R. I worked hard on it which took my mind off the run. In later miles it would get to 58:42 when I was not paying attention. Some time during mile 7, my left big toe started hurting out of the blue. I focused on GCTB to get it to stop hurting. When I finally got it to stop hurting, my GCTB was 48:52. It did not act up anymore after that but I struggled on GCTB. Overall, it end up averaging 54.1% L / 45.9% R.

Notice that my average heart rate stayed pretty low for the first 12 miles. It went up during mile 13 due to a overpass hill. It was high for mile 14 and the remainder of the run because I pushed the pace. I was glad that my left big toe did not bug me at all when I was running harder.

MLR 15. Keep it easy. Focus on GCT Balance. Left big toe acted up during mile 7. Got it to stop - GCTB ended up at 48:52. Milliken hill during mile 13. 15.19 @ 9:25 2:23:12 HR 120.9 bpm HR [0]:51 [1]:51 [8592]:142 [8593]:143 CAD 174.4 spm Avg. Strd. Len. 0.98 m GCT 238.7 ms Vert Osc 7.4 cm TE 3.1 Cal 1405 59.9 F T1 63.3 F T2 63.8 F 11/20/2016 7:24:41 AM.

15.19 @ 9:25 2:23:12 HR 120.9 bpm HR [0]:51 [1]:51 [8592]:142 [8593]:143 CAD 174.4 spm Avg. Strd. Len. 0.98 m GCT 238.7 ms Vert Osc 7.4 cm TE 3.1 Cal 1405 59.9 F T1 63.3 F T2 63.8 F 11/20/2016 7:24:41 AM
1 - 9:27 HR 110.5 CAD 86.1 Avg Vert Osc 7.5 Avg GCT 258.0 Avg Strd Len 0.99
2 - 9:43 HR 118.2 CAD 87.3 Avg Vert Osc 7.2 Avg GCT 246.6 Avg Strd Len 0.95
3 - 9:36 HR 117.6 CAD 87.3 Avg Vert Osc 7.1 Avg GCT 245.3 Avg Strd Len 0.96
4 - 9:35 HR 117.7 CAD 87.3 Avg Vert Osc 7.2 Avg GCT 250.3 Avg Strd Len 0.96
5 - 9:26 HR 115.9 CAD 87.1 Avg Vert Osc 7.3 Avg GCT 247.8 Avg Strd Len 0.98
6 - 9:29 HR 116.3 CAD 87.1 Avg Vert Osc 7.4 Avg GCT 247.2 Avg Strd Len 0.97
7 - 9:36 HR 116.0 CAD 87.9 Avg Vert Osc 7.2 Avg GCT 234.7 Avg Strd Len 0.95
8 - 9:31 HR 115.9 CAD 87.1 Avg Vert Osc 7.3 Avg GCT 246.1 Avg Strd Len 0.97
9 - 9:31 HR 119.7 CAD 87.2 Avg Vert Osc 7.3 Avg GCT 241.7 Avg Strd Len 0.97
10 - 9:41 HR 119.7 CAD 86.8 Avg Vert Osc 7.4 Avg GCT 240.7 Avg Strd Len 0.96
11 - 9:27 HR 121.7 CAD 87.0 Avg Vert Osc 7.4 Avg GCT 236.6 Avg Strd Len 0.98
12 - 9:29 HR 123.1 CAD 87.2 Avg Vert Osc 7.3 Avg GCT 234.1 Avg Strd Len 0.97
13 - 9:17 HR 130.4 CAD 87.1 Avg Vert Osc 7.4 Avg GCT 228.5 Avg Strd Len 0.99
14 - 9:02 HR 131.8 CAD 87.3 Avg Vert Osc 7.7 Avg GCT 219.9 Avg Strd Len 1.02
15 - 8:39 HR 137.2 CAD 88.0 Avg Vert Osc 7.6 Avg GCT 207.1 Avg Strd Len 1.06
0.19 - 1:36 HR 141.9 CAD 88.2 Avg Vert Osc 7.7 Avg GCT 187.3 Avg Strd Len 1.07 pace 8:30