Referring to my blog of 15 November, I talked about the challenge of making the start line avoiding/managing injuries along the way. It turns out my left leg has let me down again.
While nursing the injured calf I've been able rest my body and spend time re-assessing the goals for the race. With exactly 3 weeks to go, they haven't changed much from when I started this journey. In order:
To Finish
To run the whole way
To finish strongly
To beat my last time of 4h42. I still believe this is possible. (yes Giddo - I'm putting it out there now!)
Who'd ever have thought that I would be frustrated by not being able to run. Definitely not me! I have been able to train, just not run. During my warmup on Friday I had to walk around a park twice. Walk?? It took all my concentration not to break into a trot.
I have done a boxing session with Jess, swam 1.5k and today was in a gym following a program provided by Jess. I worked up a sweat on the rower, bike and cross-trainer at repeating intervals and followed this with some lunges, pushups and abs. I actually enjoyed it. I impressed a local trainer with my effort and when we were chatting I mentioned my goal and he said that I looked strong.
More importantly I still FEEL strong.
I am on the mend, the leg hasn't been tested yet but feels ok, I will start running again tomorrow - a slow flat plod will be the first test. Bring it on!
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Hi Tracy, sounds like it is all coming together. Hope the slight tear is OK. Good idea to focus on the cross training and make sure your leg is right. I'm off on Friday 2nd with a stop over in KL then arriving in Paris Monday 5th. Looking forward to it. All the best for Paris and to little Harry. Cheers Wazza
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