At Last...

...my first run since Jan 1st with absolutely no pain in my right ankle. Woo Hoo!

Sadly this was somewhat tempered by a nagging and persistant pain in my left knee.

I have over the last couple of weeks been getting a pain in my left knee. Not a sharp pain but the long, aching nagging pain that I have been used to, on occasion, since about the age of 13.
It's not enough to stop me running, it never is, but it is just enough of a nag to make me stop every couple of miles just to let to pain stop and regroup in some way.

Still I completed a 17 mile run (so much for the planned 14) and I will probably be glad not to see the cycle path on the far side of the river for a few weeks - blimey that has got dull, dull, dull!

The first for this run was running in my Asthma vest (it looks a bit like this although thats the old design) - certainly the colour seemed to turn a few heads, plus it has my name on the front which perhaps seemed a little 'show offy' to the passer by!
It was also a first long run in my race day trainers newly arrived from the Sweatshop in Harrods.
As is always the way I got a blister - of course after 17 miles it was a biggy!

Tapering starts in earnest. I had been told that this is the worst part - and they were right! Suddenly your mileage drops right off, you feel like you are eating for three and gaining pounds on an hourly basis but I guess you need the rest before the big day - certainly I still felt that I could feel last weeks 20 miles somewhere in my legs.