With some remaining soreness from the last long run and a lengthy, mad, 57-hour week of work, a slow, easy plod was pretty much the only possible run on the cards today. I still covered a useful 12.3km to bring my March total distance to 196km, just shy of my nominal target of 200km and with two more runs still to come. So, touch wood, this is shaping up to be my best month of running in quite some time. Slow, easy, base-building it may be, but that's exactly the point. It's something to build on, with the chances of injury being hopefully minimised by this carefully constructed base to my running pyramid.
The hip and knee soreness I mentioned previously has all but disappeared, so reasons to be positive only continue to multiply. We also finally have a break in the weather, although the forecast is for heavy rains to return the day after tomorrow.
I finally took my new shoes for a run, but to be honest, there was no discernible difference between them and the old ones, so I will use them alternately until the oldies finally show definite signs of giving up the ghost. They've now clocked up 1,065km and are still looking great, with plenty of tread and no discernible wear to the uppers at all. They really do seem to be making them to a higher standard these days.
Higher standards; now there's a worthy cause. Let's work towards that, then.
March Too Much
