It really is a daily struggle

Having found myself injured with a Stress Fracture to my right leg, being forced to "bin" the marathon in Dublin, which I had done a lot of training for. But, as you may have gathered from previous posts the training had not really done what I was hoping it would do in terms of fitness for a good time.

I ended up having to just stop and rest to try and recover from my injury. The whole process was quite depressing really, not being able to run, and on the couple of occasions when I did try and do something, my leg just didn't seem to be any better. I'm not going to bore you with my meagre attempts at running since the end of October. Suffice to say that a few weeks of total rest were needed to allow the injury to heal.

So since the end of October and now, I've just done nothing in terms of training. I haven't cross trained or done anything, just rested. Oh, I did eat a lot though, and my diet has suffered somewhat so I'm carrying a few extra pounds that I need to get rid of now. Even the blog suffered, I just couldn't face it as I had just about enough of running and the fall out from my injury. So I'm feeling much better now both physically and mentally. Sometimes its good to have a break.

So today is my first run since falling apart at the end of October, and boy was it hard work. A nice slow 5 mile run but my HR was through the roof. My leg feels fine now, no pain, no aches at all so I think my rest has done the trick as far as the healing process is concerned. December is going to be a bit of a comeback for me, nice, easy running just to get back in the flow of things again. But also to shed the excess poundage that I've accumulated in the process of eating like I was still running 70 mile per week.

Todays run, first after injury........