Had to take an extra day off this week. Had a twinge in the “groin” area after the last run, and whilst showing off that my injuries were more severe that the Mrs’ seemed to make it worse. This meant that I couldn’t raise my right leg at all without some decent pain, I really am quite pathetic.. So anyway after some advice to make sure it was rested, and nothing at all to do with not feeling to hot on Sat, I decided to leave it until today to run.
Leg felt fine today, and as I was on a schedule due to being the only adult here and having to take the lad down to rugby, I was out at 7:30 pounding the new weekend route again. Thought it was a good idea to limit the run, so instead of the proposed 15 I decided due to the leg, and the time limit on getting back I just did the 12 today.
Run went pretty well to be honest, not much of a problem with anything – normal pains but seemed pretty good. So anyway, got around 11 miles in then had a “nightmare scenario”!! ;o) Just as I got to the junction around a mile from base a young lady, dressed exactly as I was, had run across in front of me, touched the telegraph pole and turned to run back, the way I was going. You could not have set it up any better, so as I turn onto the main road I am step by step with her – arrggghhh, I’m shattered and don’t really want to be accelerating the run right now . So she says – “how long have you been running”, hmm, so I respond “About 2 months” – and she looks at me incredulously and says “Geez you must be really tired, I’ve only be running for 20 minutes” – well she was blond, with that I picked up speed and left her to it…
12 miles, 2hrs 5 mins. Off to watch the lads rugby now, then feet up and relax this afternoon…..
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Days left: 73
Confidence: 57%
Ability: 55%