Bierzo Baggie Wrote:Matty Hayden's a golfer then?
Well said BB.
A brilliant run tonight - just a 5km, but a little bit faster, with a
much lower heart rate and barely a sweat raised. My best 5km for a very long time, and another step up in fitness I think. This training really is beginning to pay off.
I paid a visit to the aptly named Dr. Pain, my podiatrist, who spent a lot of time prodding and poking and making me run forever on a treadmill while he stood behind me pretending to watch my gait, but I think in reality doing a rather tricky crossword. He then said lots of apparently intelligent things about bones and muscles with long unpronounceable names, tut-tutted my choice of shoe (he promised to write me a list of cheaper shoes that will do exactly the same job), warned me to not run downhill or too fast (no problem there
) and then asked me when I was going to run a marathon! This guy is a 2:45 marathoner, and I wasn't entirely certain that he appreciated the vast gulf between his level of ability and mine, but he just waved that away and told me to stop mucking around. And as for step-back weeks, well this was quite a foreign concept to him, which he roundly condemned with a stony silence and a contemptuous look when I dared to suggest these were a good idea.
I should also point out this guy is considerably younger than myself, and so I will temper his optimism about my abilities with some middle-aged wisdom about my body wrought through long months of injury and suffering.
Still, it was heartening to have a vote of confidence - and his orthotics are certainly doing a great job. Now if he can just find me some cheaper shoes I may be able to pay for the next pair of mega-expensive compound insoles. It astonishes me how expensive two hunks of plastic can be.
Anyway, after tonight's brill run I'm feeling more than a little vaguely optimistic myself. In fact I might just have a quiet little drink to celebrate...
Audacious April.
