Shocktober

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Righto. Here we go then.

Fifteen days after tearing my calf (slightly) it is finally at the point where I can say it is just about at 100% again. It was 90% better after 24 hours, then 95% after about three days, but the last 5% has been a bitch to finally get better, and each attempt at a run was aborted within seconds of trying. At long last however I can no longer feel the tear unless I push my fingers really deep into my calf, so tomorrow morning the training starts. Again.

With only five and a bit weeks to race day, it's going to be a bit touch and go to be honest. But I'm feeling really, really good, so hopefully I can ramp things up fairly quickly and get some decent hill work done before the race.

If not, it's going to be a real bastard.

But softly, softly for starters. Just 15 - 30 minutes easy jog tomorrow and I'll see how I pull up before deciding how to best get back up to full training mode.

Stay tuned, race fans.