For Natalie Onions – as mad as me
Crickey, day 150 and still feeling very tender after Sunday’s 15miler… this training for the Brighton marathon is taking its toll.
I felt even more tender when I visited my sports massage therapist Lillian this morning. When I told her where it hurt, she started sucking her teeth like a plumber who’s found a blocked u-bend… ‘Don’t say shin splints,’ I said as she went to work and continued to suck on her teeth.
She eventually, after half an hour, said my legs aren’t in too bad shape for someone who’s been running continually for six months and just told me to look after my legs over the coming weeks.
‘This is the time when you are more prone to injury in your training, luckily you’re seeing me early enough for me to help,’ she said.
And so I did a very very gentle run in the gym to celebrate and you know what, it didn’t feel too bad.
If you’re wondering who Natalie Onions is, she’s a woman who is also doing a year long challenge… but not with a run every day, but a thusfar entertaining blog. She even runs dressed like a pirate. Check it out at www.run1000miles.com
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Miles today: 3.11
Target: 450
Miles to date: 576.05
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