The week started well with speed training on the Monday which I found quite hard physically but it's about time I started pushing myself to see what these old legs can do.

Plan said 1 mile jog then 3 x 1 mile at 9 minute mile pace with 3 minute jog recoveries. I didn't use the full 3 minutes recoveries as didn't feel I needed them but maintaining a 9 minute mile for me was tough. I'm normally a 9.30-10.00 minute mile type of gal so was really pushing it on the last mile to finish. Got that tempting taste in my mouth to quit at 0.75 miles as who would know - well I would, so I pushed on and finished. How could I even think about quitting so close to the finish?!??! Golden rule 'You start, you finish', unless your leg falls off.

Wednesday I wasn't feeling the 'running' vibe and knew that when I got home that if I sat down and waited for run club at 7.30pm I wouldn't make it. So I got in the door, threw on my stuff and went out for the scheduled 5 miles.

Thursday the wheels came off.

Went to my first track training and I'm now thinking the warm up might have got me more than the running. Track that night was 8 x 400m in as steady a time as we could manage, the aim being to stay consistent. I managed about 1 minute 40 something seconds, but on the first lap I had a sharp pain in my right quad. I've never had a problem there before so knew I'd done something stupid. Being sensible like most runners are I quit after the first lap.......*cough*.......

So, by lap 6 and a half I finally decided enough was enough and pulled up half way round and stood with my coach Kelvin. This is the same coach Kelvin who had just injured himself and fractured his ankle. So there we stood. Coach and pupil. Broken.

I've decided I don't like track much.

After nearly 4 days rest (gutted to have missed a long run this weekend) and the pain no longer being there unless I press it or do a fairly deep stretch I've decided I am testing it tonight on a treadmill at a slow, slow walk/jog. If all is well I'll be back on plan and only have missed 2 runs. Who needs physio when you have Google to self-diagnose and fix!!

Me probably.....

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