I’ve really been under the weather this week - 0 miles ran!

I have to admit this week hasn’t been the best in my life… hence the lack of posts.

I’ve felt awful all week. It really started as just a slight cough last Sunday, and then developed in to a real bad cough before turning to blocked nose and sinuses until today. I seem to have had the same headache for about 3 days now too…which is just the icing on cake.

So, I haven’t been on a training run all week - which has helped my achilles tendons!

I did go for my pilates class on Thursday night but didn’t exactly feel up for it. It was kind of embarrassing as exercise rooms tend to echo even the smallest of coughs! I had a short 10 min run on the treadmill whilst at the gym too.

It’s Sunday today, and I couldn’t not go for my Sunday workout. I probably did about half of the normal amount of gym work but did run for 20 mins on the treadmill. I started off with the normal 5 mins walk up a steep incline and then did 10 mins at a slow run. I watched an old mpeg clip of my last race back in October earlier this week and couldn’t believe just how far I was over striding and landing heel first… so I made every effort today to land midfoot. There was a mirror in front of me so I could see if I was heeling it and it didn’t seem that I was.

My legs feel quite tight now but I think that’s more to do with the split lunges than the running. The achilles feel slightly tight, but hey, they always do!

This cold has really put me behind on writing some more posts for this site too. I was hoping to have had a few more parts to the Garmin Forerunner 305 review up by now… so will do my best to get better and get some uploaded this week.