It felt good to get a couple of runs in this week.
Despite my best intentions, 2010 continues to be my annus horribilis in terms of running.
Since my last post I have suffered from my winter occupational hazard - recurrent viral infections. The first two were minor colds requiring a couple of days off running, but the third was more severe - a glandular fever like illness leaving me sore of throat, swollen of neck and enormously fatigued.
I didn't take a single running stride for two full weeks - which I think beats my post knee surgery recovery from January. When I did get back to running this week, my muscles were aching - abductors, adductors, flexors, extensors - you name it!
It is a great frustration, particularly seeing my running peers in 'all time best' form, and not being able to join in for training sessions and club races.
Luckily the rest of life is going well - the new house is finally ready and in a couple of weeks we'll move in, after 16 months living with the in-laws. I have had more time and energy to devote to work, especially after hours, than I did when training more. I tend to have a bit less patience and more irritability with higher mileage training, something Noakes talks about in 'Lore'.
Anyway, C2S marathon will be a no go - the bit of residual fitness I'd been riding the first half of the year is well and truly gone now, and it will be a week or two after moving in, and I'll have a long list of chores from Mrs Epi which will be tough enough without post Marathon fatigue. I might run the half with my brother in law.
Looking forwards, I'm not making any more 2010 race plans for now, that might just be tempting fate. Lets just hope that, like the speech in the title, the winter of my discontent is over.
Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York (Richard III)
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Nice to see you blogging and running again. All the best with the final stages of moving in. 16 months with in-laws! don't envy that, although the way things are going we are in danger of doing that especially in June it was tight as...However autumn sorrow and the winter of our discontent gives way to the joy and beauty of spring has sprung...so hopefully some good running again ahead soon...2-4 weeks of not much = a little bit of loss of fitness, but it depends how far up the mountain you were prior. the higher you were the further you fall. However in a few weeks you could be back on trackm and hopefully by mid septemeber firing again with all guns blazing if not before...I really must read Lore of running one day, I've come across people recommending it since at least 1996...
I thought you were talking about the football, no that's my discontent. They are a disgrace and should have tanked last year.
Glad to hear you are on the improve and have got out a couple of times. Good plan re not making any plans re races, just see how you go and def don't push it.
Great news re the house,very exciting.
Good to have you back. Probably a good idea to write the next few months off, enjoy yourself and then come back fresher and stronger, and fully confident of the bone stress having healed completely.
Take it easy...
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