woooooooohoooo!!!!

new 5k pb = 25m39s - 42 seconds off the previous one!

i was a bit unsure how this morning would go because due to a need to race off for my course (currently multitasking with breakfast...) i left my car at the end and will and I jogged (very slowly... poor will!!) to the start. it was a huge turnout - so good to see all the usuals as well as Tesso who was down from brisvegas.

2p was back (good to see you scott - sorry i couldn't stick around for a proper chat!) and plu was there and - well i could keep going! a very special happy birthday to the Owl as well!!!

in the end obviously the warm up did me a world of good. but i suspect in this instance most of the results are attributable to the unexpected but extremely welcome assistance of Kit! I left at the same time as her and she had decided to have an easy day so very very kindly stuck with me and talked me through the whole run. Katie - I couldn't talk back at the time - but thank you!!!!!!! i really appreciated it - and sorry if i gave you one too many sweaty hugs at the end :) how much do I love all my coolrunning buddies??? a lot :)

ok - better eat quicker or I'll be late.

see some of you tonight!

35 mins 5.12k

not very exciting - but a nice morning to turn the legs over :) had 35 mins easy 5k down. I am struggling to do 7 min kms now (who would have thought!!!) so it was more like 6.45. i was really focussing on going slow. ran into kulinda, kerrie and deanne at about the 3.5k mark - but i had to let them go as they were too speedy for the likes of me on 'easy' day.

very nice all round.

having a bit of miscellaneous anxiety this morning. not sure why. i suspect it is because i can't seem to get on top of everything. work, study, training... sometimes i get into a bit of a rut where I realise/worry that I am just not doing anything as well as I would like. i can feel myself getting ready to list everything that i am doing crap at at the moment and that is something I try not to do these days.

deep breath...

wild wally x 6

for the first time ever i had 6 wild wallys on my program. wild wally is a 700m (well 683 really...) hill circuit with up and down hill and a nasty flat bit. to mix it up a bit today we started about 20m from the top of the hill meaning that we had a long hill to finish...

total of 9.5k for the morning and my 6 splits were 3.43, 3.45, 3.42, 3.43, 3.47, 3.52. I did them continuosly as I figured that i was staying reasonably consistent. The last one proved taht I was really just about done!!

i felt very slow today. maybe cause i hadn't done a good hills session in ages. i am sure it was good for me - but i did have the moments going 'why do i think that i can run? what makes me think that i would ever be able to finish a triathlon?'. food for thought.

speaking of which i met a coach last night to discuss getting a program for some triathlon training (and to try and fit around my running training). a couple of interesting things came up:
- first he reckons that if i haven't got my bike yet i should try and swap it for a road bike.......
- secondly he wants me to aim for an olympic distance tri that is on in April which would give me 6 months. i had been thinking more, this time next year - but he seems pretty confident. nothing like a challenge hey??

Well.

I got back from Perth pretty late on Monday night and even though it is only a 2 hour time difference I felt a bit tired and sluggish (i love that word). so I decided not to get up the next morning for training and get a bit of sleep and get to work reasonably early as I knew I would have a bazillion emails waiting.

So that meant 2 days with no running or swimming or anything! And then last night I had dinner with some lovely coolrunners (wobbly man, kev, jen, owly and DJ - i blame them all for the fact that i ate a pizza AND a bowl of gelato...) and so this morning I had intended to go to a spin class but ...didn't.

I am planning to go tonight - but I am starting to talk myself out of it because I have hills tomorrow morning. hmm.

actually I am feeling really tired and a bit blah this week. I was really motivated last week and did good on the weekend, but feel a bit like i've dropped the bundle. I know that 3 days off is not the end of the world (actually it will probably only be 2.5 days if i go tonight) but it feels strange. hehe. not so strange that I didn't go back to bed this morning after I woke up at 5 though :)

Anyway - someone asked me what my next big running goal is the other day. I don't have any huge one but I have some little 'before the end of the year' ones:

- 55 mins for 10k
- 25 mins for 5k
- 2 hour half at Central Coast!

Next year the aim will be to get those times down more - like 50 mins 10k and 1hr 50m 1/2.

My biggest fitness related goal at the moment is to complete the Sprint distance in the All Women's Triathlon in early Feb 07. I read about this on TA & the Gnome's blog and got a bit excited. I feel about swimming and cycling the way I did about running 8 months ago so I want to do something about that. The distances are 500m swim, 20k ride, 5k run. I am confident that by Feb I will be able to do that.

If I enjoy it - I will set my sights on a longer one later in the season. But if it is just a drag and I hate it - then I won't! I suspect that I will like the challenge... just because it isn't easy for me. Strange that I keep putting myself in a position where I feel completely and utterly out of my depth, personality flaw I guess :)

EDIT - i forgot the most noteworthy thing that has happened in the last few days!!!!! one of my toenails is going black!!!! eww!!! it looks very strange. doesn't hurt though so i guess that is a plus.

beautiful day

in sunny perth for a 14.5k run around the 3 bridges. 1hr 40 mins - i felt a bit 'unusual' wearing a fuel belt and suspect that if i hadn't had my ipod in I would have heard a few strange comments :)

bit of an eating marathon today. have finished meal one - breakfast which was a bagel with avocado, mushrooms and bacon. soooo good.

now off for lunch.

:)

perth time

yay! home sweet home! but i am very annoyed at leaving a lovely 30 degrees in sydney for cold 20 degrees and rainy! still had a great run this morning along the river/Burswood - 9k in 56 mins something. Avg pace 6.18 - so a little faster than intended but it felt good.

perth runners are friendly! lots of good mornings!

and freddy had a bit of a hard time finding a satellite but once we confirmed that i was indeed hundreds of kms away from my last run we were all good :)

running and swimming and running

Last night I was lucky enough to have an accomplice for a swim session in the shape of Paul (Portrunr). He is a lot more 'advanced' than me you could say - and in fact his breakstroke was loads faster than my freestyle... but hey - gotta start somewhere :) it was good fun having someone to chat to in between laps in particular. at least when i was able to keep less than a lap between us!

(oh yeah - i did 1300m freestyle - first aim is to build up to 2k)

This morning I had 35 mins/ 5k on the program. lucky it was an easy session because I think that the swimming does make my legs pretty tired even though they don't feel tired just to walk around. I ended up with 5.15 km in about 34.30 or something like that. avg pace 6.31 (hehe - nearly typed 4.31!!).

But after that - I am tired. It is only 8.30 - but I'm exhausted!

I'm flying back to Perth tonight for a long weekend which I am looking forward to. Been missing my fam a lot and all my mates. I have a 10 year school reunion as well which is going to be a bit of a shock to the system... 10 years... who would have thought. The last time I ran into someone from school they didn't believe it was me and were like 'you're a grown up!'... hmm yes, well in body anyway :)

Thanks for all the suggestions about goals. I have lots of plane time to think about that stuff and will report back (but all suggestions gratefully accepted!)

E xxx

Goals 2006

so in my first blog I had a list of my goals for 06.

- Run 10K
- Run 10K in 60 minutes
- Run in the Mothers day fun run
- Run the City to Surf
- Run the Blackmores half marathon (hmm maybe that can be a 2007 goal...)

Well - i reckon i did pretty good.

10k in 60 mins: check! PB 55.50
Mothers Day fun run: check (albeit only the 4k cause i was too late for the 8k....)
City to Surf: check!
Half Marathon: check!!!!(2.03.48 in case anyone missed it....)

still thinking about goals for 2007 - they are coming together in my mind - i will formulate further and report back in the near future

:)

fartlek on the lake

(i still giggle just a teeny bit when i write fartlek - i didn't for a while but then my friend pointed out how silly it is... hehe)

have left the garmin at home but i seem to recall that it went like this:

warm up - 3.6k - including drills and strides.
3 continuous loops of the lake (roughly 1.4ish km) - first loop 7.14 (avg pace 5.04), second loop 7.36 (avg pace 5.14), 3rd loop 7.32.

cool down to round it out to 9km.

i was really pleased with how my legs felt this morning. especially in the drills and accelerations where i usually really struggle i felt quite comfortable. noice. maybe that is what a day of rest does for you!

later on today i am going to dig out my list of goals for 06 that i made in Feb - i am almost sure that i have nailed them all... :)

good to see don juan back in speedy form and lulu back for a last session before heading over to italy (again...)

x

done!

I am now the proud owner of that very attractive bike :) it won't get delivered for a few weeks but its paid for and I am very excited! mostly the bike is for cross training purposes but i would like to have a go at the enticer triathlon that is on in february - the girls only one.

after that who knows - but i am keen to become another of the 'problem' cyclists harrassing innocent pedestrians and motorists in the park... ;)

i am contemplating having a full rest day today. alternatively i might go for a swim or a spin class after work...

the precious...

thinking (seriously) about investing in this little beauty...
i think the guy thought i was a bit strange for only wanting a bike that was pretty. this one is very pretty i think...

back to sweat

well yesterday i pulled up pretty well with just some soreness in my quads (Sparkie reckons that is cause of the downhills which makes sense cause i felt the same after sutho to surf). miraculously nothing else hurts at all!! all of easy tigers work obviously paid off!

At lunch yesterday i did 15 minutes slow on the cross trainer to warm up before a nice long stretching session. then last night i ventured to ...the pool. i'm a shit swimmer but want to improve. i ended up doing 1k of which 300m was breastroke and the rest was freestyle. actually the breastroke was mostly at the start and i got into a rhythm eventually. it reconfirmed that i find swimming hard in a cardio kind of way and i can only do one side breathing - so i try and alternate which side it is! i was however very pleased to find that i could keep up and not get overtaken in the Medium lane - although i was more comfortable in the Slow lane...

anyway i was keen to see how i felt at training this morning and also to say hello to everyone. my friend mel has signed up for the works so she'll be along all the time now - yay!!

in terms of the running - the mind was willing but the legs just felt a bit sluggish. the accelerations were more like slow jog and slightly less slow slow jog. but i didn't really care! after the C2S we just did a lap of the park - so i felt quite virtuous. i had 8 x 300m on my program and was keen to do them all. this was thwarted after lap 6 when an officious and melodramatic park ranger made us stop mid rep because they are doing something to the playing fields. seriously dude - we were running, not pouring battery acid on the field - it wouldn't have killed him to let us finish the one we were on!

sean took the squad to the other 400m track that he apparently has but i decided that would do for me. all up 6.03k for the morning and a nice return to it :)

am now overindulging in the cereal that was in the bag that we got at the end of the race. delicious - and obviously very high in sugar!

27 degrees in sydney - its fabulous! can finally ditch the stockings and coats.

half marathon ...check :)

i did it! i didn't get sub 2 hours but i crossed the line in 2.03.49 according to my watch (might go up).

even though i didn't get under the magic number i am still VERY VERY happy with my time!! for one thing - i finished!! secondly i only walked the drink stations, and thirdly - I finished!!!!

the 2 hour figure was really just plucked out of the air for no good reason so i was not that attached to it. and now i have a time i know what it is that i want to beat next time!

anyway - so the day started a bit anxiously... i finally got through the toilet queue and katie and helen told me that i didn't look so good. a bit of company perked me up and i was raring to go. I had my 2 running mates blkbox and will with me and felt very comfortable that they would look after me. And they sure did! We started with Gnome and the 2 hour pace group and i think that i kept up with them until around 10k when they gradually moved further and further away from me. still that first 10k was done in just over 56 mins which is pretty darn close to my 10k pb... we were averaging 5.36's for those first 10. the next 6 were pretty tough and that was when I was really really glad to have andy and will there for moral support.

to be honest i thought that the longer slower hills hurt me more than observatory hill. that was over before i knew it and we were on that nice downhill... the cahill expressway was great as there were coolrunner cheers (thanks guys!!) and then it was the lovely downhill on macquarie st which i really really enjoyed :) in fact we picked up the pace a lot hooning down there. blkbox set me a target of a dude to overtake and we did it! v cool. unfortunately i didn't have the garmin on autolaps so i'm not sure what my splits were - would have been very interesting...

in case i didn't mention it enough - thanks will and blkbox- you guys made all the difference - i would have slowed heaps more without you :)

then got up on the expressway to watch and cheer the marathoners!! massive congrats to uncle dave who finished 5th with a gigantic pb. very cool to watch!! also belinda who nailed that 2 hour mark in emphatic fashion!! stuck around cheering for quite a while and got to see the girls i work with who were doing the marathon running in together. that was cool.

actually it was all great. i am a very happy camper, especially after a steak sandwich at the orient. who knew that you could eat there???

so many excellent runs and good friends who i am very grateful for. you guys rock (you know who you are...)



me and horrie at the bag drop (i made him have a photo with me so i had a photo of me at the half marathon but i felt like a dork in a photo by myself!!!!)



beer & lunch for a bunch of coolrunners...

EDIT - looks like I started and finished my watch just about perfectly - my official time is 2.03.48 (that is a one second pb from what i had yesterday!!). i can 2,373rd, 755th woman and 249th woman aged 18-29 :)

that's all folks

5k - 34.43 mins - 6.57 pace

listening to rage at the moment - twisted sister - we're not going to take it. hehe, gold.

anyway - last run before d day. felt a bit odd running at that pace - and not as easy as i was hoping!! but not too tough. tried to keep the pace around 7 mins cause that was what was on the program. feel good now after a long stretch. there is absolutely nothing else that i can do to be better prepared for tomorrow. except eat and drink well today i guess - and start getting into the right mind set.

i can do it.... i can i can i can i can i can i can i can i can i can i can...

:)

big berthas

i was a bit hesitant about doing a big hills session this close to the big day but figured i could take it slowly (although its never easy...). I had 10 on my program but at 6 i was feeling the pain above my ankle again (grrrrrrr) and stopped for a stretch. then sean said that would probably be enough.

on the plus side i started easy and wasn't busting a gut but at the same time i felt quite strong and consistent and managed to go past some people who started a lot faster than me - which is completely unusual for me. So i am happy and feel a bit more confident that i can handle some hills.

all up 6.73k this morning. the hills section was 2.56km at 6.04 avg pace.

in sad news - Go Girl is too injured to run on sunday. of course i would love having her along but i want her to get better! plus i've still got lots of buddies - blkbox is still on board and there is gnome in the 2 hour pace group and i think Horrie and Belinda will be around my timing. (although judging by Belinda's inner speed demon on the track i am not so sure!!). i'm staying in kirribilli on saturday night with some mates which will be great - will definitely take some of the stress out of the early morning transportation drama!

3 sleeps to go :) and one more run...

short run

had 4k - 28 mins on the program today so a real easy one. Got a bit distracted with my ipod and ended up doing the 4k in 27.09 avg pace 6.44 so walked home then for another 10 mins. Cruisy relaxing run - confirmed that all bits and pieces are still in working order :)

Massage with the tiger at lunch time, hills tomorrow, 5k saturday and then we are ready to go!

EDIT - was just looking at my site meter and someone got to my blog by googling "running slow marathon look stupid" - what does that say about me??????

sweatin' again

great session on the track this morning. felt really sluggish in the drills and strides but picked it up. my program this morning was for 1800m, 400m, 400m, 600m.

The first rep was the big long one. Started strong and tried to hang on to Helen and Kit who are in marathon taper and so were going easy. I managed for about 2 and a half laps but lost them on the third. Still I was really happy with my effort and crossed in 8.45 (which is good cause it means i would have done 2k under 10 mins). 400's were done in 1.44 (phew - i was stuffed after that!!!) and 1.50 and i rounded it out with 600 in.. i don't know cause i forgot to press lap. Fairly sure it was 2.50...

All up 7.52k for the day.

Was also trialling my race day nutrition strategy which was sustagen and a few hundred mL of powerade when i got up and a few gulps of powerade 10-15 mins before the start. seemed fine. my stomach behaved itself.

had a chat to sean afterwards who reckoned that 2hr 02 mins was a good goal for me but that i should see how i go for the first 10k (aim for 58 mins, 5.50 pace) and then pick it up. I should keep the 2hr group in my sights he thought. so not too far off what i thought. i have also probably given the wrong impression - i really really really want to go for 2 hours and i like to have a goal that is reasonable but challenging etc etc - but i won't be massively disappointed if i don't get it - even if i end up crossing in 2 and a half hours! This has been my biggest goal for the year and I will be very very happy just to finish! hurray!

then i get to come up with new goals to play with :)

reality check or do i just need to push myself harder?

was just looking on the mcmillan pace calculator at what my 5 and 10k times translate to in a 1/2 marathon.

my 5k time (26m21s) would predict a 2h01m48s half marathon - but it would also predict a 54.44 10k which i have never done.

my 10k time (55m50) would predict a 2hr04m14s half.

so - i am just wondering whether this means that realistically i should downgrade my expectation (and the pace that we go out at etc etc) or whether i should just concentrate on believing that 2 hours is realistic? i don't know.........

i don't want to set my sights on a time that i am never going to be able to reach and will be disappointed if i don't make - but then again i don't want to give myself an excuse to not push myself.

anyways - just thinking out loud...

the bay

Met Jen and Lorna for a very nice 9k trip around the bay and canal route. Worked out exactly what I was aiming for - 9k in 60 mins. about 6.40 pace. I felt great - no niggles, no tiredness and it didn't feel like a struggle. Just one of those days :) It helps having good company!! followed up with a DELICIOUS breakfast and excellent coffee in leichhardt - life is good. :)

its been ages...

seems like since i have had a proper run. actually it was wednesday.

was on a tight schedule this morning because i had to get in my run (1hr 9k) before supervision (9-11am) before coming back home and paying my rent (in person between 10 and 12am every second saturday... hello .. earth to electronic tranfers...) then heading over to Drummoyne for another appointment with Ali the dietitian at 1pm and then meeting some girlfriends for afternoon tea at 3pm and getting my friend to the airport some time around 6 or 7.

this was all contingent on getting the run done nice and early - but mannnnn... the rain was HEAVY!!! however at 7.15 i finally got out the door thinking that there was absolutely no other time that i would be able to get it done. so i got wet. ended up doing an abridged version - 41.30 for 6.97k in 5.57 avg pace. i was trying to go faster and most of the way was average 5.42 but the hill at the end killed me. Splits were 6.24, 5.45, 5.45, 5.30, 5.19, 5.37, 7.06. last one was a hill but i am disappointed that i dropped that far back. think i was trying to prove something to myself - but i didn't... hmm...

now - thank you everyone for your encouragement - it means a LOT. I am also very lucky that blkbox has offered to run with us too - so it will be a great bunch of people and i think it will help a great deal.

The only query that i still have is - what is the deal with all this talk of chocolate? tradition? and attempt to sabotage me? :)

excited!!

Well my very exciting news for the day is that not only is there a friendly 2 hour pacer for the half marathon - the fabulous Gnome - Go Girl has also very very kindly offered to run with me.

I am VERY excited and extremely grateful because I think that having someone there with me will make a huge difference. I will admit to being slightly apprehensive as having people there with me means that I won't be able to use any of the cop out excuses to go slower that I would use if i was on my own.

But - as I mentioned to Go Girl, if there was ever a time to REALLY TRULY give it everything I've got - this must be it. So as of today I am starting the positive self talk about all things half marathon and 2 hours!

Yayayayayayayyyy!!!!!

OK - that said, today I didn't go to training because the rain was practically horizontal. I did get up early and have come in to work early so straight after work I am going to hit the gym for either a spin class or some cross-trainer-ing and a big stretching session.

(did i mention that i am excited??)

8k, 49m24s, avg pace 6.10

dropped the bundle a bit this morning because i was supposed to do 8k in 45 mins (v fast! perhaps this was meant to be my 1/2 marathon race pace?). but i was tired from yesterday's two runs and a massage. so no dramas.

I did have my lovely friend julie who is staying with me along for the ride. hurray! i suspect she could have gone faster - but she seemed as happy to finish as me :)

Legs tired, but no aches or pains. not long now...

:)

(oh and r2b - the crying was because of the paaaaiinnn.... plus this is all unchartered territory for my body - and it is being a little petulant :)

sunshine

its been ages since i ran at lunch time. its lovely! (not 20k though...)

anyway - missed training this morning cause i had another appointment with Gary. Was a good one judging by the pain levels. i was doing my best to tough it out, but i did have one part around my left ankle where i was practically crying (jeez - i've been doing a lot of that lately). So to make up for the session i thought i would do 5k at lunch and 5k after work cause i couldn't fit in a big session.

So lunch time - 5.66km, avg pace 6.01. (34mins)

Hilight of the day was running into the owl! not such a high point for her though as her shin was hurting and she had to make it back to haymarket.

will update if i make it out after work :)

EDIT - did it! about 5,5km in 5.56ish pace. Cool!

But then I went out for dinner and had a massive burger. mmmm red meat...

funny (and yet amazing) revelation

when i was hobbling around yesterday i decided to buy some completely flat shoes that i could wear to work. Luckily I also think they are totally cute. anyway - after wearing them for the whole day - i have absolutely no pain in my legs or feet. The pain around my ankles is still there - but only to touch, not just walking.

how cool is that?

more shopping could be in order... shoes... clothes that don't look totally stupid with flat shoes... handbags that match the clothes that don't look totally stupid with flat shoes... etc :)

back to gary for more miracle healing tomorrow morning which means no training session. might go for a run at lunch instead.

20k, 2hr 15 - alternatively titled - F**k that was hard

woke up this morning and was VERY pleased that my foot was fine (thank you gary...) headed out for my first hour before meeting up with Lulu who had 1 hr 20 on her program. in the end i met her at 50 mins and she had to do an extra 5 mins :)

in a scene reminscent of practically every other run of my life - i went out too hard. avg pace at 6k was 6.18. then i whacked a hill in and met lulu at avg of 6.23ish.

started to feel a bit fatigued as soon as i started with lulu. she was forced to go slow for me which i felt very bad about. then i started to notice the pain above my ankle on my right foot coming back (its allllll related apparently) so stopped and stretched. that helped it a little but it remained and is still aching a bit. luckily i am booked in for another massage on tuesday so i'm confident that will be fixed too!

now around 10k i REALLY started to struggle with fatigue. At 11 i was lagging behind and at 12k i had a bit of a mini meltdown. I never really thought that i would stop but i did actually think i was going to burst into tears (honestly there may have been a stray one or two...). Still Lulu kept me going and without her encouragement i don't know if I would have made it. somehow the feet kept going one after the other and soon we were at 17k and back at the park. ran into Sean's squad. because my muscles were all fine he said to keep going - would have loved to stop for more of a chat with Katie/Bernie/Deanne but I was not in a position to stay still because i literally wouldn't have started again. Picked it up for the next 1.5k and then the last 1.5 was just a grind. I was in struggle central. I finished 20k in exactly 2hr15 min as my program said, but it felt disproportionately hard to all of my other long runs.

theories behind that? it was hotter than I'm used to, massage yesterday so maybe my legs were tired, ???? I think it is more likely just 'one of those days'. i hope so. i am hoping that it is isn't an indicator of how I'll go in the half. i've never found keeping going so hard. far out. still i did keep going and I am going to take that as a positive.

thanks Lulu :)

Laps were: 6.45, 6.05, 6.11, 6.12, 6.22, 6.42, 6.53, 6.31, 7.01, 6.25, 6.38, 6.30, 6.41, 7.00, 7.02, 7.06, 7.35, 6.57, 7.02, 7.11

marshalling and cautious optimism

I managed to stick to my decision not to run at the Striders 10k today, but still got up at a ludicrous hour to join Will on marshalling duty at station 1 'the roundabout'. what fun! i loved it! each runner came by 5 times so i got loads of chances to cheer all and sundry (sorry if i was annoying - i admit that my creativity of cheer content waned as the hour went on...). glad to be involved despite not running and enjoyed possibly the largest and best pancakes of my life at breakfast in Manly with TA, Gnome, the Crinitis, Go Girl and Will.

Loads of people had top runs and the pb's were dropping like flies. my heart saddened to see a 55 minute pace group with a few people in it.... and not me...

Anyway - the foot was still pretty achey. Headed in to see Easy Tiger to sort me out and crossed paths with Sean who is human after all and looked like Gary had given him a good going over :) Gary wasn't convinced that it was plantar fasciitis (hurray!) because it could easily be connected to the other probs i've had over the last few weeks. that rang true with the pain that came up in areas other than the bottom of my foot!! in any event it was a very painful experience and i'm allowed to count it as training to increase my pain threshold :) interestingly gary got some ice on my foot after a particularly painful bit and that relieved it a lot. all up i felt a lot better straight away and am now icing it and will be doing my long (20k) run tomorrow.

ah well - even if i can't be a proper runner i have discovered the joys of an alternative career in marshalling and cheering :)

getting over myself

ok - had enough of my little 'poor me' party the last couple of days (ok it was just yesterday). foot still hurts today so giving it a rest. will try and golf ball, ice, stretch calves during the day.

(i'm a bit confused though, if its supposed to be inflammation - hence the icing - wouldn't the massage with the golf ball make that worse?)

anyways - i've booked with easy tiger tomorrow, have decided not to run the 10k, hope to get into a physio today (although then i wonder whether a podiatrist would be better??). goal is to be able to run my long run on sunday (possibly an abridged version...). saturday will either spin (checking with physio first) or swim.

i think it was exascerbated by having a probation review at work yesterday... trying not to fixate on the more 'constructive' aspects... :)