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Warm Up Before Every Run and Cool Down After
I used to skip warm-ups entirely. Lace up, walk into a Saturday Parkrun, 3,2,1, Park run! It felt like wasted time when I could just be running instead. Looking back, especially after everything my foot has been through, I think that habit cost me more than it saved. Think of Your Muscles Like a Car…
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Learning to Run (or Not Run) With Plantar Fasciitis: What I’ve Tried So Far
When plantar fasciitis first hit, I assumed I’d need to stop running altogether until it fully healed. That’s not quite how it’s gone. I never actually stopped — I kept running through it, kept showing up to Parkrun, and just started paying a lot more attention to a few things along the way. The Morning…
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The Day Plantar Fasciitis Stopped Me Cold
It was around October 2025 — about eighteen months into all of this — when it happened. By that point, my running had come a long way from that first 8-month mark, where I’d finally managed the full 5km without walking, at a pace somewhere in the low 32-minute range. Since then, I’d kept chipping…
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From 800m to 5K: My First 8 Months of Parkrun
From 800m to 5K: My First 8 Months of Parkrun After that first 40:43 — walking almost the entire 5km — I didn’t have any grand plan. I just kept showing up on Saturday mornings, telling myself I only needed to beat last week’s time by a little. A few weeks in, I met someone…
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Why I Started Running in My Mid-40s (And Almost Talked Myself Out of It)
It started with two separate conversations in 2023. The first was my son’s best friend, who was already doing Parkrun — and my son wanted to join him one day. The second was catching up with a friend around the Christmas season, who mentioned he’d also started not long ago, but at a different course…