Sometime this summer I did try to compare the New Bance 880v4 and New Balance 890v4. I guess my initial review was not that great and I did not do justice to 890v4. I had run max 10K before that. Now that I am done with my #STWM Half Marathon, I was back at testing different shoes. I would not risk to switch to any other shoe other than New Balance 880v4. I had 2 main options I got the On Cloud Running and New Balance 890v4. I gave up on Cloud runner after my first run it did not like me and the feeling was mutual. For a month now I have been running with New Balance 890v4 and I have done few long runs on it. Weight So the specs for New Balance 890v4 say it weighs 240gm which is about 30gm lighter than the 880v4. Now with i being on healthy side one would say that 30gm is nothing. But trust me I can feel that difference while running and New Balance 890v4 feels lot lighter when running. Top The mesh and top portion for both feels same and I think even though the new balance site might list something more or less i think they are more about the same. Sole and Cushion. From my experience with 880v4 I can tell that once you go past 10K you start to feel every cushioning go away, you can feel every pebble and crack on the road. To be honest I have not run more than 10K on my 890v4 and I probably won't because the sole has less cushioning than 880v4. Both the soles are really flexible and strong and the I get similar wear pattern on both. 8mm drop Vs 12mm drop So this was something that I did not thing would make difference to my running, but I was totally wrong. One thing that I learned from my summer runs with 890v4 was that it made me a more forefoot running. This less drop makes a big difference and I really carried that even when I switched to 880v4. For any heel runner this is something worth trying and I can tell you that it hurts as hell when you switch to fore foot or mid foot running. I had aches and pain all over but as time went by things got better. There is no way you can run anything more than 10K with heel strike especially if you plan to keep doing it again and again. So trying any shoe with 8mm drop or New balance 890v4 might be worth trying this. Feel Now we always talk about cushioning with respect to impact, but one area where New Balance 890v4 is really better is the cushioning inside and at the back of ankle. I felt that 880v4 has really hard it gets hard as you run on the ankle part and I got shoe bites on the top part of ankle. Where as with 890v4 it feels more soft and it keeps that feeling much longer. Summary To be honest both 880v4 and 890v4 are really good shoes and they offer something slightly different and both appeal me. Especially if you are bit a heavy runner and prefer cushioning it makes sense to run with 880v4. At the same time for short distances upto 10K or 10 miles it may make sense to use 890v4. The 8mm drop does force you to be a fore foot or a mid foot runner and that is somthing that I wanted to switch too. With the less cushioning from 890v4 there is no way you are going to like the heel strikes and you will be forced to go mid foot. I still will keep 880v4 around for long distances and probably run alternate between 880v4 and 890v4. You can use 890v4 as a race day shoe just do practice with it , so you know when it starts to break during long run. So back to my running blog and I ran 8K with 890v4 today, the weather was chilly but after few mins it was all good. We went through a new path and we west east to broad view on Queen. Than through river st and the park way back to the Bercy park. The trees are really beautiful now it was scenic run. Here is how the run went. So this week it feels like i am back at my regular ..My foot calf muscle still hurts once in a while. Now it even bothers while running all the phsio did work but it was temporary solution. Now trying to run it out. The Thursday group as usual is sparse and to add to that today it was a raining a bit and was cold. I prefer cold over hot and humid day but the rain was a spoil sport. Nothing interesting in today;s run and it was a regular 4K up University to college and back. Oh I did sign up for the "Tannenbaum 10K" probably last race for the year if I don;t sign up for the resolution run. Hoping I can beat my last time this time. Here is how the run went today. After a long break we were back at the hill training routine again. The part that I hated in Half Marathon training and think that it caused the injury that I am still carrying. It was with the 10K group so it was not supposed to be as strenuous as the half marathon one. We just went up and down on Spadina between Lakeshore and Front St. It was not bad and the lights helped relax. Overall I think I am getting used to New Balance 890v4 again. It feels good not still on Sunday's it hurts but I am hoping that this Sunday' it goes lot better. For some strange reason the Garmin watch takes forever to lock the GPS in Bercy Park. Its probably the only part in FD core which has open sky and it the Garmin 610 cannot get lock there. I also upgraded the firmware and now the route looks more jittery in the maps. Overall the Garmin connect site has really got a new fresh and sleek look which I like. It looks more modern now and is responsive. Here is how today's run went. So after Sunday;s run which tanked with the On Cloudrunner shoes. I went back to another pair of shoes that I stopped during my #STWM training. I went back to 890v4 and right away I was back running as before. All was back to normal my feed din't hurt apart from where it was hurting before. I did 2 runs this week and it went well. I am also see quite a few runners form the half marathon clinic and coming back to run. I am signed for my next half clinic which starts in Nov. I need to get back to my strength training regime arund I can tell my running is right foot dominant. Need to fix lot of bad habits in running. Yesterday's run Garmin just refused to get a lock on GPS. I finished the 4K run and it never got a lock on GPS> I t was really strange. It was fun to be back at running. Not much to write. So now that the #STWM is over and I rested for a week and ate all sorts of sweets. It was time to get to back to running, and now was the time to explore new shoes and techniques. So I decided to wear my new On Runners "CloudRunner" Shoe. It did not go well as expected. Now I am not sure if it my stiff muscles or the shoe. It was weel the first 10min but after that I could feel pain in strange places that I did not feel before. Both my foot had pain in the outside of calf muscle. It felt horrible and soon the pain behind kneee showed. I limped my walf form the half way point. I can tell the it forces me to land of for feet a lot but the shoe sole is really stiff and does not flex at all. I guess I am not planning on running a lot this week need to take it slow till I feel better but first impression about Cloudrunner shoe was that it does not fit me that well. The stiff sole is definitely not something that is going to work for me. I am going to give it a try few more runs before I pull the plug in this. So I have been training and blogging about #STWM for a while and finally today was the day. I got way early 5:45am and got ready had a toast as I had settled down over number of trials I ran on Sunday's. I had laid all my race gear the night before. The race was super packed I had to start my way with the orange coral, parking took a longer than I expected and now I now not risk it next time. Go there lot early I ran almost 4K from eaton ceter to the start all the way down to Univ and King. I was able to catch up with the 2:30 pack bunny and that was really usefull. I really like the idea of tailing someone who is my pace and I just kept along with the 2:30 pace bunny. I now blame the run from Eaton ceter to start of me missing my 2:30 goal , I was good with 7min/km pace last time and this time it was good too. I was not tiered, but my right foot got stiff and it was really bad after 13Km. Luckly that was the turn around point at Elis and I was able to keep going. My ham is still stiff as usual it should be good in day or two. Overall I was bit disappointed that I came so close to my goal.I had 20min to do last 3K which was total doable but after 18K it seemed too much to ask from my body. I eventually finished my run and I checked of my bucket list item of finishing a Half. I did 2:33 on my Garmin the chip time was 2:36 both too close to my goal. Both Garmin 610 and heart rate monitor worked really well today. I finally have medal that looks like a real medal. I have posted my results and medal snapshot below. More to come now next half next year but running will continue. The clock is ticking for #STWM now its like 5 days away. This week is the last week for training to for Half marathon @STWM. Give that the Sunday long run was 6K I was expecting today's run to be same. To my surprise we had to run 10K and it was not bad. Now 10K does not feel like I ran anything its what I use to fell about 5K when I was doing 10K training. I was usual run west on wellington to Bathrust and than to Martin Good man train and back. I think my last week's travel for working wearing that formal shoe has bought back my injury. I can feel the pain in calf muscle again not sure if I want to go to physio again. I was really hoping it was behind me hopefully not running next few days should help to relax the muscle a bit. Not much to write about the run as of yet. I did my first 10 miler race today. It was great location right in the lake. I had never been to the Leslie Spits before. Its really great location to especially to run, its green and by lake and flat. I was hoping to a much better time especially given that I had run this distance before but I was not there today from start I was a bit slower. I took couple of blocks and a gel but it was too late. Over all it was good run and good preparation for the upcoming #STWM half marathon. Now I am bit worried about the distance not sure why running in heavy rain and thunderstorm was not as bad as today. The Sun was out all along bit it was not too hot it was perfect temperature and felt good. My calf injury did not bother me much once I was warmed up it was all good. My ankle did feel weak after 12K and it did cost some time to ignore it; I have to ice my foot and rest today. Here is how the race looked. Oh Garmin 610 GPS and heart rate were both on the spot accurate today. For a change. I have been saying this for a while that I have been running for a while now and I was lucky to not catch any injury. I guess that is really a false statement, there were tell tell signs and I should have backed OFF. I knew all along that this happens and have seen so many runners go through this and yet ignored that and kept pushing and trying to improves times , run longer and push harder on hills. My calf muscle which was bothering for a about 2 weeks finally decided to raise a red flag. I was limping for a week and yet ran 18K and tried to run today. Surprisingly running still is more comfortable than walking. I guess it was just blood flow which masked the pain and made it worse every time I stopped today. I did visit a physio yesterday who did a acupuncture and helped a bit, but it was bad again today morning. With a race planned for this Sunday which is not insignificant distance. I decided to pull the plug on training and rest a bit. I also was icing my calf muscle for last few days but it was too messy to move with the ice pack around me. Found this cool and fancy ice pack in running room and it is really great. It does not use water it has gel which soaks water and freezes. It has sleeve that compresses and holds the ice pack in right spot. This is really cool thing that they make. I did run today but was less than 4K in total and not worth mentioning too. So #STWM is getting close and today we ran 18K that was so tiring. I was almost dead by the time I finished it. It was pouring like hell when we started. I went mostly due to peer pressure and I know with out the group I would never have run or got till here. The time sucked as usual the Sunday runs I find it harder more to do with running in morning than evening. My last few evening runs have bettered the time every day but the morning run still suffer. I found few more runners like me. I my case its more to do with having necessary carbs before running. I am trying to get a decent breakfast now before every run. But than it has to be small portion to avoid throwing up before run. I hope I work this balance out in next 4 weeks. Garmin heart rate monitor again failed today and I really need to find a solution for this before the race. It was supposed to help tune my run by controlling heart rate better. Need to call garmin support again about this. We ran all the way to Ballamy beacy past ash bridges bay. It was fantastic route along the lake. |
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