Sidelined

Dammit… <insert a long stream of random swear words in here>

The on-going malaise is given an extra hand by a dodgy hip which has all but stopped any running completely. So my exercising has dropped right down to a trickle of not much. I tried to go for a run last Tuesday, got all of 1 mile and realised this wasn’t one of those “you can run through it” type of injuries and hobbled back. Since then, no running, and the hip has been getting better extremely slowly, but getting better nonetheless.

In the meantime, got on the bike, well the indoor one. So, that’s about just under 3 hours worth of spinning this weekend. My legs were jelly down to not much cycling for the last few months. The big conundrum is that I won’t be home now until the 31st, so that’s two weeks in which I hope my hip sorts itself out considerably, or I’m going to be back to square two, not quite square one….

So now I’m generally grumpy because I can’t get out and run. Hurrrurmmmppphhhh….

December is back

After what was a tough month, running-wise at least, it’s time to try and step up a gear. The darkness alongside the coldness and the basic grimness of the weather this time of year does not make it easy to get out there. In fact it makes it really bloody hard. I’ve started to give up on early morning runs as I’ve not had the appetite to do that, especially as it’s dark until around 8am.

Luckily, running later in the day, while it’s still light, is actually a little less harsh almost back to enjoyment. This weekend got in a couple of around 7 mile runs, nothing special but something. Half the problem where I live now is the difficulty of finding routes that a sufficiently different. Lots of very very long straight roads so you always have to retread the same routes before you can go off-piste. That along with being the hunting season, you’re limited to where you can go.

Still can’t face getting the bike out on the road either… Reading this post it sounds like hell. I need an event to get ready for, now that the adventure race is out of the running due to other commitments.