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sam

@sam@running.cafe

I'm a keen runner, dad and computer nerd from Hampshire in the UK and the admin of this instance. Aka https://blahaj.social/@cablespaghetti

Building a friendly, safe place for runners on the fediverse.

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sam, to running
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I’m running the Hackney Half tomorrow with my wife tomorrow. This is probably the least training I’ve done for a race ever due to injury and life. However I’m looking forward to not going too hard and enjoying the atmosphere. 🙂

alexisbushnell, to running
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I'm so annoyed that I have spectacularly fucked my knee in my first week of .

I rested it today and yesterday. Did a yoga for sensitive knees practice just. I can't bend it tight, that seems to be the main issue - it'll bend a certain amount but then its increasing pain and seriously tight in the knee itself.

Trying very hard to be compassionate with my body - I started doing a new thing which is hard on the knees. It's doing its best.

sam,
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@alexisbushnell It is an occupational hazard unfortunately. Although I did read a thing a while ago saying that the whole “running will wear out your knees” thing is crap. It doesn’t make the soft tissue injuries any better. Sometimes better shoes and/or improving running form can help. Might be worth getting to a physio for some advice if you can.

sam,
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@alexisbushnell Ah I have high arches and that causes me fun problems too. Although nothing serious recently.

I hope you figure it out and can keep running!

sam, to random
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After not enough sleep my wife and I have just visited the expo and collected her bib.

It’s such a party atmosphere. There’s a bunch of smaller races going on today and there are runners everywhere!

sam, to running
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What a day! I woke up at 6am in Llanelli in Wales and got my wife to the start of the Great Welsh Marathon which she won first female with a time of 3:07. A 10 minute PB for her!

While she was running I went for a little trail run with some fantastic views but also unbelievable mud and flooding. I turned my ankle quite badly in a muddy field, was able to run the rest of the route on it but it’s not happy now. Hopefully it heals quickly. Other than that the run was fantastic, it’s nice to get out somewhere different.

After my wife finished the race we jumped in the car and blasted back to Southampton for me to see The Night Sky Show (@virtualastro) at The Mayflower Theatre with some friends. I made it just in time. It was well worth it too. 🙂

The long expanse of deserted sandy beach.
An extremely flooded footpath
A very muddy trail with amazing views

sam, to random
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The advantage of my wife liking the marathon distance is I can do a nice 90 minute trail run while she is running the Great Welsh Marathon tomorrow, and I’ll still have almost two hours to find her and support. 😆

sam, to random
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Good news. This instance now has a second machine on which I’ve set up Elasticsearch, so full text search is now working. 🙂

I don’t know if anyone will use it but 🤷

Shaun The Sheep Movie Ok GIF

EighthLayer, to Fitness
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I think I’ve tweaked something around my right ankle on my last run a couple of days ago and I can feel it today. Not going to run on it this morning as I think I may make it worse. 😔

I’ll see how it feels tomorrow I guess.

sam,
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@EighthLayer Take care of yourself. Don’t do what I’ve done in the past and run through the pain. I’ve recently started doing a lot more cross training (swimming/cycling) which is a good option.

sam, to random
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I've just discovered https://relay.fedi.buzz/ which seems perfect for this instance as it allows us to get great visibility of the common running hashtags from across the fediverse.

I can already see the server load jumping up a little bit, but it's very manageable. 😁

sam,
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@shanie Good point. I was considering adding the mastoadmin one but limiting it to just running hashtags is probably the best thing for my instance.

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