Spring Forward!

Since having my ankle injury, which prevented me from running for weeks if not months, I don’t seem able to get myself back into a running routine, so it was very fortuitous to bump into an old friend in Tesco’s last week, someone I used to run with on a regular basis and who literally kept me on my toes in terms of performance!  She has always been a very good runner, but told me that she too had been having problems with a calf muscle strain and was slowly recovering and building back her mileage.  So we agreed to get together for a run, to hopefully inject some fresh energy into our routines and all being well, inspire & motivate each other to improve not only our performance but also our weekly mileage levels, ultimately re-establishing a regular discipline; I’m not a personal trainer, but I do firmly believe that it’s not what you do once in a while that makes a difference, it’s what you do regularly, so a 20 mile run every Saturday is far less beneficial than 7 x 3 mile runs during the course of the week.  Having just returned from a fabulous pilates class, I’ve got time to re-fuel before heading out again this evening for our first run together, a 5 mile route that I’m not familiar with, so I’m looking forward to getting out there and making this the start of a whole new regime. 

Happy Friday!