Sunday, 30 December 2012
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
My first race since May...
... and a cross-country at that!
So, that's out of the way. It's not easy summoning up the will to put your body through a race again, becoming accustomed to the kind of discomfort that only running as hard as you can for a given distance will bring. I'd done my first few hard training sessions for many months, but it's not the same as putting it all out there!
I was pleased to finish a respectable 31st and 7th NHRR scorer on a day that also saw NHRR win a cross-country event overall for the first time this season. My performance, along with some recent sessions, suggests I could do a low 38min-something 10k at the moment. Given I've only been doing injury-interrupted, low-mileage tick-over running for most of the last 6 months, I'm pretty happy with that as a base to build from.
My right hamstring was feeling pretty tight yesterday, so I'll have to watch that to avoid another recurrence of this Summer's on/off injury saga.
So, that's out of the way. It's not easy summoning up the will to put your body through a race again, becoming accustomed to the kind of discomfort that only running as hard as you can for a given distance will bring. I'd done my first few hard training sessions for many months, but it's not the same as putting it all out there!
My right hamstring was feeling pretty tight yesterday, so I'll have to watch that to avoid another recurrence of this Summer's on/off injury saga.
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