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A Letter From Lancashire
by Russell Turner - 22:06 on 28 February 2022
My five weeks of races is less than a week away, and today Mr Postman delivered my first race number of the year. Sadly, it’s for the Wigan Half Marathon, rescheduled from 2020, which I’ve abandoned in favour of the Alloa HM, also from 2020. At least it’s there as emergency back-up if Alloa falls down at the last minute.
Today should have found me running the 12-mile Week 7 long run, but my weeks are getting longer. This time it wasn’t the weather that deterred me – just disinclination tied to my still occasionally hurty heels. I’ll do it tomorrow, when it might be just 10 miles. My training plan is in bits anyway so I’ll continue to make it up as I go along until after this Sunday’s Nairn 10k, when immovable race days mean I’ll have to stick to a programme.
Whether I’ll do every run in my schedule remains to be seen. On Friday I visit Mr Physio who will examine my heels (and, presumably, the rest of my feet and legs) and diagnose a reason and a cure for their distress. They don’t stop me running, and usually feel better when I finish than when I started, but they grumble the next day. That could be a problem when I return to five runs a week after London.
Better news is that the gales have blown themselves out, at last. There’s only gentle wind forecast for the rest of the week and no rain apart from a few showers on Thursday afternoon. Conditions look good for Nairn on Sunday, although no PB will be sought. A sub-60min 10k will do me fine. After all, it’s just a stepping stone on the way to London.
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