OK so it's been an up and down week! Tuesday was my birthday so for ultimate smugness I went out and did 7 and half miles in preparation for a day of bridesmaid dress shopping and excessive consumption of cadburys giant buttons and pancakes! I was lucky enough to get The Grid from my fiancé - a foam roller for torturing, erm I mean helping your muscles after a run (I did ask for this by the way, not just a random pressie!).
Ive been starting to get a worrying ache in my Achilles and the bottom of my foot recently. I mentioned it to the podiatrist on Wed and he's given me some stretches to work on and apparently I need to invest in a tennis ball! Surely I cant be falling apart just because I've turned 29 now and my body is now in its 30th year?! All my joints are getting clicky so standing up from being sat on the floor sounds awful - its happening - I am getting OLD :O
Anyway, back to running! After my smug run, things didn't go as well, I've still not shaken off this cold properly and I'm feeling exhausted and unmotivated - not good! Had Friday off work on annual leave but woke up with a migraine - great! After a few cups of tea, a morning in my pyjamas and the amazing migraine zapping tablets I have found, I managed to drag myself around Saltburn for a slow, torturous 4miles, but at least it was done!
I'd resolved in my mind that this weekend needed to include a long run so Sunday morning I was relieved to wake up to lovely sunshine & feeling much better! I headed off to Redcar where I met our friend (& best man at our wedding) Joe who ran back with me, clocking up an impressive 7 miles himself. After an attempted sprint finish down the last road to our house which ended in Joe nearly throwing up in the street, I convinced him to try The Grid, which he described as "the worst pain ever". Good eh! The hilarious end to the day was that I dropped Joe back off at home and commented that his good lady wife, Karen, had gone out, to which Joe reassured me that there would be a spare key for him so off I went. Two hours later and I've just got a text saying he was locked out and had to run to his in-laws resulting in his blisters getting bigger and him having to sit around in his father-in-laws dressing gown until Karen turned up with some clean clothes - haha!! Anyway, I'm pleased with how this morning went and hopefully I can get back on track now and push on over the next few weeks! Fingers crossed!
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