Recovery run – 2.36 miles

Another early morning session this morning…

I left home at 6.20am and didn’t exactly feel like running. To spice things up slightly (!) I ran a route I hadn’t run for months. To be honest the main reason I changed routes was because the one I did this morning has a bit more life to it. It goes in to my local town and back again, so at 6.30 in the morning there’s a few people about. And at that time of morning I find it easier to run if I see other forms of human life out and about It also makes me feel good knowing I’m exercising whilst they’re plodding their way to the train station, or even worse… standing around lazily at the bus stop trying to avoid the 10 minute walk to the train station!

My feet also didn’t feel great this morning, so I decided to curtail the run and only do 2.36 miles. I considered adding on some more, but it would have been another mile, and I didn’t really fancy tweaking something with less than 2 weeks to go until my 10k race.

I’m glad I did keep it easy as at lunchtime today I started to get a dull ache just where I did my stress fracture above my left ankle. The feeling has subsided now, and to be honest I’m not sure if it was muscular, tendons, ligaments or something more worrying with the bone. I’m going to try and block it from my mind in preparation for what will hopefully be a decent 4 mile run with tempo intervals tomorrow evening.