Congratulations to you both - it sounds like your strategy is paying dividends.
It's a great lesson for many of the Newbies/ first-timers here - start a long run gently and still finish in a decent time and, more importantly, alive and in much better shape than those boy racers who tear off at the start. Not sure I'll take up popping stuff into the oven half-way through a run, but hey - if it works for you that's great
Interesting that Guinness seemed to have a positive effect, SW. I must say my own long run last Sunday was excellent, albeit following a nightmare 9 hour troll through the hostelries of Mayfield with man-on-a-mission, SP.
I'm interested in the physio's diagnosis of Mr SW's sore knee.
Last year I played host to a niggling hammie injury which flared up with a vengeance during the Reading Half. I completely changed my gait, pointing my right toe inwards in a sort of Kaiser Soze/ Usual Suspects stylee, for three miles and the pain let up enough to get me through. Seems to support the theory that a small change here has an effect there. Another helpful note for us all.
