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Inverness Half Marathon 2022 (Not)
by Russell Turner - 20:32 on 13 March 2022
Illness has caused me to DNS a couple of times but today was the first occasion that injury has kept me from a race. Instead of the Inverness Half Marathon (run in great weather, of course) I walked for 30mins and 1.76 miles around home. It wasn’t quite the same.
At least I did something. After five days of rest following last week’s Nairn 10k, and the limpiness that ensued, my hurty heel had eased off enough for me to try a test run yesterday. That lasted all of two minutes. Today’s lower impact effort was less of a strain and about the right distance/time to give the heel a workout without overdoing it. I’ll repeat it tomorrow, if all is well when I wake. No running will be attempted until the weekend at least.
This means that the Alloa HM is also scratched. I’m not a happy bunny, although still optimistic that I’ll be able to cover the London Landmarks course in a respectable time. At worst, there’s a group of injured/slow/nervous participants who plan to walk together so I wouldn’t be alone. How all this impacts on Edinburgh Marathon preparation remains to be seen.
Friday’s meeting with Mr Physio was cancelled by him, after he became ill (of what, I don’t know) so the bursitis diagnosis is still unconfirmed. A new date has yet to be arranged; hopefully his illness is a minor one.
That’s life. Maybe The Running Gods are being mean to me before giving me a London Marathon ballot place. The results are out tomorrow. You never know.
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