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Sep 2021
6:32am, 13 Sep 2021
719 posts
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njosmith
Four weeks out from the rearranged Sunshine Coast marathon I had to cut my long run short yesterday due to pain in on the underside of my left foot. I have self diagnosed as Metatarsophalangeal Joint Pain. I think I have just been training too hard for too long and my body is starting to say enough is enough. Current plan is to rest this week and hope I can run next week. It isn't very painful but I assume if I continue to run it will just get worse.
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Sep 2021
7:12am, 13 Sep 2021
39,661 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Oops, hope no one was wanting to use Brighton mara for their GFA or other official time. 500 plus metres over. 
Sorry to hear that njo. Hope it clears up. G
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Sep 2021
7:49am, 13 Sep 2021
7,668 posts
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LouLou
njosmith - sorry to hear that. Take it nothing else you’ve changed - no new shoes either running or other? No long days on your feet? (Asking as I think my plantar fasciitis years ago were due to my work shoes and hard floors) Might be worth trying to get someone to look at it for proper diagnosis in case there’s something you can easily adjust pre-race? How’s the lockdown situation e.g will your marathon happen?
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Sep 2021
7:50am, 13 Sep 2021
4,065 posts
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Curly45
Also no course certificate Happy! I'd seen that before the long course announcement. Wonder if they are related somehow?
Sorry to hear NJO. Just rest until it doesn't hurt to walk and go from there. Can you cycle or something in the meantime if needs be?
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Sep 2021
7:50am, 13 Sep 2021
7,669 posts
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LouLou
Saw that G - and the Vienna marathon DQ’d the winner for wearing shoes with too big a stack height ! Interesting development !!
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Sep 2021
7:51am, 13 Sep 2021
4,066 posts
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Curly45
Xpost with Lou who has much more sensible advice than me 😊
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Sep 2021
8:11am, 13 Sep 2021
39,662 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Also bit of a hooha about Brighton marathon winner overtaking in last 200m, had a pacer from his club that came on the course at mile 22! This marathon thing is just a b*tch-fest! Good thing I can't do them any more! G
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Sep 2021
8:14am, 13 Sep 2021
15,366 posts
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larkim
This all feels a lot more "normal" doesn't it!
Hope the advice to rest works fine njosmith; a week out now is a long way from a disaster if it makes sure you get to the start line.
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Sep 2021
8:19am, 13 Sep 2021
7,670 posts
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LouLou
G - I was just thinking whether I would have bought “the shoes” back in my marathon days. In reality, I would have been too tight with my cash I think.
So if Brighton had been normal length there would have potentially been a different winner? Or maybe same guy would have kicked earlier?
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Sep 2021
8:41am, 13 Sep 2021
39,666 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I think it probably would have been the same Lou. If you've got enough in the tank for a kick at 26 miles, he'd have had it at 25.5 miles or wherever it would have happened. Though perhaps the guy who had led from the gun and came second would have had more in the tank, half a mile earlier, to have held him off. Who knows?
The pacing thing is a bit more insidious though I think. He claims not to have known the club mate who came on the course and ran with him. Had apparently done the 10K and just came along to cheer him on. Never trained with him. Errr, yeah, well that's not good enough. He should have said to him, "f*ck off, you're risking getting me DQ'd". Surely people racing at the front end know this stuff?
Never a problem that I had, unfortunately! Nor the idea that faster footwear would have won me a race either! I might have bought them though, as I did do "everything" to get the time I wanted - dieting, bit of strength training, followed my plan, resting etc. Actually, I never had a coach, and I never bought any specialist race kit, so probably would have been too cheap to spend £200 on the shoes! G
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