Saturday 22nd October
It was with joy that I sprung out of bed at 5.45 this morning, meet Philip at 6,30 in the dark and had a joyous 9 mile run, taking in the daybreak and sunshine, finishing at 8.00am to then go to work…….
That is how it should have read, in reality it was a bit more like the following...
It really started a couple of days previous when we were arranging the 9 mile run on Saturday, the time was getting earlier and earlier, due to Philip’s commitments and then mine and we ended up with a start time of 6.30am.
On the whole that is fine, except that I had a small accident the gym on Thursday, I had been talking to Joanne, and giving help (I think that was what she called it) on her routine for her up coming Pole Dancing final. At the end of this I left, only to return to find Andy in there as well now talking to Joanne, anyway they suggested that I try one of the Pole moves, which obviously I did, with scant regard to the fact that I have a marathon and charity Ultrarow coming up. I did the move, not very elegantly, anyway, 3 hours later my back was hurting, by the following morning my back was really stiff and I struggled out of bed. Frantic calls to Paul Skidmore, who is excellent at sports massage on Friday morning and luckily he was able to see me that afternoon. Ninty minutes later I was not cured but feeling better and reassured that I had not done anything too stupid and that I should be able to run the next day.
Come Saturday morning, alarm at 5.45, go to move, oops still stiff as a board, too late to cancel Philip, so with the knowledge from Paul saying you will be fine, I carried on, a bit stiff but able to jog. Philip had seemed to have lost his pace from previous weeks, where we have been averaging 9.15/9.20 per mile, Philip thought today would be a good day to run a bit slower, about 9.53 pace.
Not sure if my back will thank him, I will let you know.
We have been blessed with lovely weather so far, it does make training that much easier, I know we have a lot worse to come.
Today Philip has also informed me that he will be away 4 of the next 8 weekends, so it looks like a lot of long runs during the week…
In the mean time KEEP RUNNING…..
Trevor
Sunday, March 4th, 2012, Philip and Trevor will be running across the frozen ice surface of the world’s largest, oldest and deepest lake, Lake Baikal in Siberia. It's generally considered one of the 10 toughest marathons in the world. Philip and Trevor are running in support of Iain Rennie Hospice at Home, a charity offering specialist and supportive care and advice for patients with cancer and other life threatening illnesses in their homes.
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