January Jollies

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Had to forego my usual long walk to work this morning due to warningly strong pain in the left kneecap. This seems to have been brought on not by yesterday's "long" run (I shan't embarrass myself by stating the distance in the current climate of long run warriors), but by the torture regime imposed by my running angel Rebecca. Just at this point in time I must confess I'm thinking Sunita looks the better bet

However. This is a new pain, not the deep-in-the-joint pain I normally get. Which is the idea, generally - to strengthen otherwise little used areas that is. Perhaps I just need to ease back a bit.

Other than that, the running is basically "on track". One month in to my running resurrection, and I have only missed one scheduled run, due to extreme heat which coincided with Christmas jollies anyway. Phew. Very slow progress, and it will be a long time before I'm running any significant distances but it's great to be plodding at all, so I'm happy.

The Athletics season down here has been embroiled in controversy, with at least two track races going an extra lap due to the officials losing count! One was a final, with a visiting American runner sprinting to win the race, only to hear the 1-lap-to-go bell as he crossed the line! He ran the extra lap but not surprisingly lost. Officials admitted their mistake, but still awarded the race to the winner of the last lap. Thankfully they didn't make the same mistake at the running of the local marathon yesterday, which is two laps of a half marathon course! A tad over 50 people finished the race - the winner in 2:43, and the last runner coming in at 5:18.

Sigh. Next year. You up for it SP? Think of the chocolate