You've done the rehab. The exercises feel fine. But running still doesn't — and nobody seems to own that part of the process.
Irish running coach Mark O'Mahony works with recreational runners in exactly that gap: sometimes alongside a physio, sometimes long after one has signed them off. He came to running sideways — he fought Muay Thai professionally, then finished a hundred-mile race on seven weeks of training, which he does not recommend.
He won't hand out a list of exercises, and he explains why. What he gives instead is the layer underneath: how he reads pain as information, why morning stiffness is his main signal, what he does when someone's response is worse than expected, and why he only ever changes one thing at a time.
In this episode:
Why the gap between doing the exercise and handling running is where comebacks fail
Morning pain as a baseline — settled versus fluctuating
Why pain-free during the run tells you less than the next morning
The runner whose foot wouldn't settle until they counted their steps at work
What he does when rehab gets skipped, or a race no longer fits the timeline
Where his job as a coach ends and a clinician's begins
Mark is a coach, not a clinician, and he's clear about that line throughout. Nothing in this episode is medical advice. If something isn't improving, get it looked at.
About Pace Buddies I'm Joost, a running coach working with recreational marathon runners — mostly people fitting real training around a job and a family. Aerobic-first, and adjusted to how your body is actually responding rather than to what the calendar says.
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