Long Time no Write

it has been a long time since i lat made a blog post. Mainly due to my sore hip and not being able to do regular exercise.

May finished and June started and looking back at the numbers for May I only ran for 22km which is my second lowest month since i started to run again in February.

It is now 1 week before the Bluewater 10k which was the first event I was meant to do last year and missed with a bad knee so I am keen to be fit again for this to be my first ever even this year, so much so I have managed to get Lin and Bee to come too (only for a 2k fun run). Therefore, I am writing off last month and pressing onwards, after spending a good 2 weeks resting with just one small run in the middle I set off on a wet Saturday morning to attempt the Bray loop. I dragged Christelle along with me to keep me company and motivated and also to be able to get the car if I suffer badly from hip and find myself stranded far from home.

Using technology I had my heart rate monitor set to beep when my HR goes over 170, to manage to keep heart at this rate we ran at an average of about 8min/km which is very very slow but I managed the 8.75 km loop which was a massive achievement in its own right even if it did take an age!

Two days on and hip seems to have survived well and feels the best it has in a long time, so another day rest and one more practise run on Wednesday and hopefully i am ready to come last in Bluewater.