I’ve now added pictures to the post on the Brighton Marathon, click here to see them
So after a fairly good night’s sleep I woke up this morning a little stiff but in better shape than I expected. Interestingly, the stiffness is more muscle soreness than shin splints so I’m hoping I have broken the shin splints back!
Laura tried to convince me to run later in the day to give my legs more chance to rest but I knew that unless I forced myself to get out of bed and go, it would get harder as the day went on.
I squeezed myself into some compression tights to help ease the soreness, through on a tee shirt and was off for about 7am and the three miles pretty much replicated yesterday’s race.
At first I was a little stiff but a third of the way hit my stride and started going faster. After two miles though I hit a mini wall where I started to question myself and what the hell I was doing. It brought back more memories of yesterday where from about mile 19 everything just blurred in a kaleidoscope of colours and a cacophony of sound. I remembered back to the race where some of the spectators started to annoy me.
There was one guy who, somewhere around the power station mark was stood between the runners going and coming back and was shouting at people to high five him, if they didn’t, he gave them abuse. I wanted to high five him, with the knuckles on my fist…
I also recalled people stopping to stretch out or starting to walk and I was determined to not stop and continue on for fear that if I stopped, I would never start again.
And with that thought in mind, I pushed on for another half a mile until I got to 2.5miles, where things got easier again… this running lark is really played out all in the head.
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Miles today: 3
Target: 636
Miles to date: 850.37
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