Its been a while!

Well, as you may have gathered, its been a while! But with good reason......

Unfortunately at the end of January as the training continued, 5 minutes into a training run, over my music I suddenly heard a pop, and with a lot of pain realised the pop was from my calf! What happened next was unfortunately nearly a month of recovery time to be able to start running again, so everything went a bit pear-shaped!

At the same time, we had lots of fun and games in the personal life as well, with numerous visits to doctors and A&E with Simone, who unfortunately has been suffering superficial thrombosis!

But, after a month off, Ive slowly started running again, not many runs yet, and its going to take some time, but desperately need to get back into it.

Just to throw myself back into it, on the 5th March, after just two training runs back, I had the first of the planned events for the 100 mile challenge. Initially I decided that I hadnt done enough training so was going to give it a miss, however, as it was only a 10k, I decided that I should be able to get around the course with walking as necessary.

So, on the 5th I turned up at Crystal Palace athletics track and took part in a two lap 10k, involving numerous very steep, but very short hills which were absolutely knackering. The event was really well run, with about 500 people taking part, and I eventually crossed the line in 1 hour 23. A pretty awful time, but given the injury I was more than happy with that, and now its time to get back in to the training properly, the next event is two weeks today with the Sports Relief mile, which I will be doing 6 miles at.

There is still plenty of chance for anyone that would like to take part in it as well, and you can look at running/walking/hoping/skiping, 1 mile, 3 miles or 6 miles!! So why not join in???

Will be keeping the blog going again now, so expect lots of updates with details of the weekly training, and hopefully a few friends may pop on to write a blog about their experiences with RA as well!