The Long and Winding road - back to fitness

Another week without training for me, it's driving me up the wall. However, Mo managed to do her most miles in a week for a long time. I was optimistic in the middle of last week that I was at last on the mend particularly after having a couple of days pain-free. We even managed to walk to the village hall on Friday night for the annual village quiz. Modisty prevents me from saying how well we did but we have the trophy to prove it. Forever the optimist, at least my mind was being exercised.



On Saturday we headed to Strathclyde parkrun where I was Race Director and Mo was again in the relentless pursuit of her 50th parkrun. Mo managed to get under 23 minutes for the second week in a row.  Unfortunately I was starting to feel pain again and was starting to dread what the next few hours would bring. Alarmingly, I was booked in for a session with Grant McLullich, the sports therapist we use. If I thought I was in pain now, Grant was the man to show me what real pain is! Grant as always was able to come up with a diagnosis and provided me with exercises to do to aid my recovery - after that he proceeded to inflict his very own brand of pain, sorry I mean deep tissue massage. Still, after the visit to Grant I was more optimistic about resuming training in the middle of next week, all being well..

On Sunday, Mo donned the running shoes and running kit and headed off for a long solo run round the country roads in Harburn. Mo completed her 10 miles in a quicker time than we normally do it together so clearly I am holding her back in these long training runs. However, as I mentioned I am more optimistic about resuming training this week - just in time to take my place at the Speed of light runleaders training day - bring it on.