Mark Dymond
Must try harder

Hi Tom
I will email you using your hotmail account right now ok
MARK

Hi Mark,
How are you doing? How are the knees holding up. I'm doing fairly well apart from being knackered. I'm back home on tuesday night for 3 weeks so drop me a line at tomcom27@hotmail.com if you'd like to catch up and compare notes/whinges. Weekends are "wife time" so it would have to be mid-week. If we can't meet up, let me know how you're getting up to LHR nearer the time.
Cheers,
Tom

Hi Tom
thanks for the message. Training is going okay, much better than I expected considering my arthroscopy on my knee last june. There is a lady in cornwall also doing the MDS trying to make contact with her too. We need to hook up when your back in devon/cornwall let me know mate
i live in bodmin
regards

Mark, just saw one of your posts on the forum. Think you are the first 2012er from the South West that I've come across apart from myself- I'm from just outside Plymouth. How's the training going? I'm currently stuck on an oil rig with only 1 treadmill and no other cardio so am struggling a bit! Hope it's going well and you're keeping injury free. Let me know if you want to meet up to swap ideas or for training sometime.
Have a great Christmas,
All the best,
Tom

Andy, thanks I will try lifting my toes, as you suggest. And let you know.

regards

Mark

Mark,

Sorry for the delay but i have not been on the site much recently.

It sounds very much like your foot fall could be the problem. Drop back on the exercise a bit and work to ensure you hear no slapping noise when you plant your foot. 9 times out of 10 when you get a prolonged case of MTSS its due to foot fall. Make sure you lift your toes when your planting your foot.

Give that a go and concentrate on it otherwise your foot will naturally revert back to your normal plant action..

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Mark it does sound a bit like compartment syndrome but its very hard to diagnose. I have just replied on the thread. That is what i would do. the change in milage was way to drastic. You should up your milage by 10% max per week... Also it could be your foot fall thats the problem. as long as you have no races preplanned then I would rest and recover. when you walk ensure the trainers arent too tight and you dont hear a slap when your foot contacts the ground... This is the bigggest factor i find that causes this problem.... Let me know