I mentioned Copenhagen marathon in my last blog. Well, my time was frankly shit at 5:34:45 , my second slowest time ever. However this time I have a real excuse as I have been suffering from a proper running injury for months now. A real excuse that is as opposed to the usual lack of training excuse.
I have plantar fasciitis in my left heel. Bloody hell it's painful. This meant I started the Marathon in pain and finished it in even more pain. But like the hard long distance runner I am , I still completed it and beat my running buddy too!!!
Of course this has meant that ,apart from the Blaydon Race,I haven't run in 5 weeks. I wouldn't have run at all but I wasn't wasting my entry for the Blaydon, not after spending 3 hours on my phone, laptop and Kindle one evening earlier this year in order to get a place. That run was painful too, only not as much and I finished the 5.4 miles in 50:49. which is a good time for me.
I finally gave in and spent 42 quid on physio assessment and my heel is slowly getting better.I have had a couple of pain free days this last week so I intend to start running again soon.
A friend on my completed the 69 mile race along Hadrians Wall a couple of weeks ago. That's my aim for next year.
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