Niggles

So this week had been a week of niggles: first the blisters, then twisting my ankle, and now I seem to have wrenched something in my calf (hopefully only a temporary situation). I guess it's not been the best week for my mojo either - with each run I've done being quite tough mentally. I know people always get bad days occasionally - and bad weeks - but I do sometimes feel I'm fighting more than I should have to. When is the runners' elation going to kick in!

After taking some extra rest days to let the blisters clear up a bit, I went out for a run between work and choir on Wednesday in place of my (normal?) cross-training session - I had been planning to go to the gym but one of my colleagues decided to have an 'idiot' day and I didn't have time and the only option was to pootle around some roads. 1/4 mile in I was crossing a street, and fell/wobbled down a pothole in the pedestrian crossing nearly twisting my ankle but I did feel like I could carry on. A slow 3.5 miles later I was back in time for a quick orange juice before choir.

Thursday I rested again, and left my ankle strapped up, and then yesterday I went out for my LSR. I'd planned the route in advance to head down to the tea shop in Cramond (from where I could get a bus back to the city centre after all). I could quite easily have thrown in the towel after about a mile and a half - and my ankle was being more niggly again. Somehow dragged myself slowly around my planned route, although had a couple of tearful moments and even more 'should I just get on a bus' moments. The thought of giving up and this week being a complete disaster kept me going - and was thinking about cake at the end of the run. 

So today should have been a nice recovery run, which I planned to do at the gym, after a wee cycle. Well the cycle bit went ok - but I'd had a bit of a twinge in my calf which I must have pulled a bit walking up towards the gym (it is pretty much uphill all the way - gotta love Edinburgh). Needless to say once I got on the dreadmill I didn't want to do much other than get straight off it! Going to see how it all feels after work and whether I feel like going out on the roads for half an hour to at least get a proper run in for the day.

Consoling myself with chocolate milk :-(

Stats from LSR