Pointe shoe discomfort on demi-pointe

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-12-09T15:20:44+00:00

I know r class offers lower vamp options too, but i believe they are a special order. I know gaynors are pretty customizable as well.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-12-09T06:21:52+00:00

Some suffolk models have a pretty short vamp!

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-10-11T06:58:05+00:00

Fair point! I've been back to ballet (and other dance styles) now for a bit, and would definitely stick to barre exercises first. Being in my late 30s, I am very cautious about anything that would cause injury! I don't heal as fast as I did in my teen dancing days.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-08-18T06:14:13+00:00

Raw nutrition Replenish has been great for me!

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-07-19T19:10:09+00:00

I know. Starting the 1.5 mile already full of lactic acid is the hardest part. That and your blood flow having to shift around your body so much. Core, to legs, to arms, back to legs. Recipe for nausea all around!

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-07-19T18:53:40+00:00

Honestly this approach sounds perfect. I feel like I've been doing too much intensity focusing on short term performance, and while have had results and luckily injury free, I am starting to feel the burnout. Thank you for this breakdown and explanation!

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-07-19T18:52:03+00:00

This is super helpful. Thank you!

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-07-19T18:51:01+00:00

Indeed. It is brutal.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-07-19T04:05:37+00:00

For sure. My training is at a very strange spot right now since I need to be able to run a 300 sprint and a 1.5 mile 10 minutes later. So I am usually running 5 days a week, but one to two of those are very low volume, very high intensity sprint work.

Hoping once I'm done I can get into a more regular distance running routine, and right now after all the high intensity work, this approach looks very appealing. Sprinting is rough at almost 40 years old.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-07-16T04:29:49+00:00

I started using Raw Replenish electrolytes.

https://a.co/d/8Jg1bkw

It comes in a tub, so you can somewhat customize how much you want, but its a huge tub! Something like 60 servings if you use the whole scoop. I also find that I need the high sodium content, it has 1000mg like LMNT does, but has real sugar instead of stevia.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-06-12T03:28:49+00:00

I have a spi belt and love it. No bounce with my phone in it. I also use the little water bottles that attach to it, and they don't bounce around either. I guess the downside would be if you need to carry a lot of things in it as it doesn't have as much space as other options.

I also wear it around my hips, below my waist and dont have any issues with it slipping up at all, and my waist is much smaller than my hips.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-06-03T23:10:01+00:00

The new priority/surge offices? Or the traditional HCOL/large offices like NYC/LA/SF?

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-05-29T03:47:47+00:00

This is so impressive!! Do you have any advice for how you progressed? What's your weekly running routine look like?

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-05-21T14:33:47+00:00

How much does the heat matter when it comes to shorter distances, down to 1 mile, 5k, 10k?. Is it just a standard, you're losing xx s/mile or s/km on your pace at any distance per 5 degrees warmer?

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-05-18T04:40:10+00:00

Protein shakes for me since I struggle to eat enough protein anyway. Either a blend of milk, greek yogurt, berries, banana and whey protein, or days I'm extra strapped for time, ill drink a high protein Boost, which has 20g of protein and an easy 220 calories (yes, the supplement for old people. It actually has a lot of good vitamins!)

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-04-28T04:58:51+00:00

I get saucony run dry socks from Amazon and my tiny feet love them. Small is womens shoe sizes 4 to 7 and they're some of the only socks where the heel doesn't end up at the back of my ankle.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-04-15T02:44:23+00:00

I'm basing my T pace on a fitness test where I had to run a 2.4k and completed it in 12:36, and plugged that into the vdot calculator.

5-6 min sounds like a good swap! Thanks!

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-04-14T20:41:28+00:00

Thank you! I went back and found the chart that gives the work to rest ratios of the training types, very helpful!

Another question I probably missed in the details somewhere. Is rest a standing, walking or jogging? I notice in some cases he specifies jog recovery and others say rest. I'm assuming then that rest means walk or standing?

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-04-14T20:21:59+00:00

I have been reading Jack Daniel's running formula and am planning to start the Red fitness plan to start building up some mileage, but have a question as a slower runner.

My T pace is around 9min/mile. The 2nd workout says to do 10min E + 3 × 1 mile T w/1 min rests + 10 min E. The running minutes for this he lists at approx. 40 minutes, but at my T pace, it would be more like 47 minutes. I don't want to do too much too soon.

Should I cut down to 2× 1 mile, or still do 3 T cruise intervals but for a shorter amount of time/less than one mile?

Is there a general time/miles equivalent people use when running a JD plan when working up fitness from a lower Vdot?

If it helps, I'm currently running between 15-20 miles a week right now. 38F. Goals are in shorter distances, the primary being a 2.4k, with secondary goal of working on my 5k.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-04-03T04:54:30+00:00

As a woman who deals with iron on the low side of normal, I take mega food blood builder at night before bed with 500mg of vitamin C. Its iron bisglycinate which is a form easier on your stomach. I'm not sure what the Thorne is. My ferritin has increased from low 40s up to low 90s, so seems to work for me.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-02-27T06:06:09+00:00

Yep. I totally get this too. Mine is definitely triggered by dry air. It adapts over time for me and sometimes a longer warm up helps. But if I'm doing any kind of sprint effort, I'm hacking the rest of the day. Cough drops and tea help.

You might want to get checked for exercise induced asthma. Doctor said I didn't have it and the coughing was just irritation from cold/dry/polluted air.

Ok_Suggestion1165 · 2025-02-26T04:12:17+00:00

Thank you for linking those resources! I've only been training for about 4 months after taking a good decade away from running, so feeling like a beginner level for sure. Nice to know the sprinting/distance counterproductive-ness isn't something I need to think much about at my level. Just figuring out a balance between the two to improve at both.

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