The weather this week played havoc with my raining plans. With two weeks to go to the Roy Brown memorial half marathon I really wanted to run the 15km night race last Wednesday in Benoni just to see how I would cope with a slightly longer distance. I was really nervous the first half of the week leading into it, but Wednesday morning arrived and the weather was shocking. I decided not to risk getting sick by running in the cold and wet conditions. That left me with a huge dilemma as I still hadn’t been able to do a run longer than 10kms up until now.
I decided on Saturday after my weekend breakfast radio show to try and get in a 15km training run. I ran quite a difficult route and coped quite well I think. I was tired but felt that I could’ve done a bit more if I needed to which bodes well for the 21km. Friday night also saw the Krugersdorp Run/Walk for Life’s yearly prize giving. I was shocked and humbled to receive the most improved runner for 2009. I really wasn’t expecting to win anything so it was a pleasant surprise.
On a bit of a worrying note. I went out for a run on Sunday afternoon to try and get rid of some of the stiffness from the previous days 15km and have seemed to done something to my foot. I’m hoping its nothing to serious and some good rest and anti-inflammatories will be able to sort it out in the next 48 hours. All I know is that it is really sore if I put any sort of pressure on it. Don’t forget that you can follow training and progress for Comrades 2010 at Garmin Connect.
