Two months of down time.

Sorry for the lack of updates of recent times. It's been a frustrating 8 weeks with a few highs & many lows. The good news is that for the umpteenth time this yr I am up and running again, albeit at a much much more conservative level. I haven't really been in touch with forums I used to read/blogs etc but I still will every now and then. I have started getting back into tennis of recent times and aren't sure if I'll ever get back 100% into running.. .time will tell.

Following my sore knee I got hit with the flu just around the time I wanted to start running again. This was no ordinary flu as it knocked me out for a good three weeks or so. At its worse I still only took say 2 days off work, but it just lingered around forever and left me with little energy.

At the outset of that I did start running again but after a week got some nasty shin splints following an 18 km'er. It was around this time that I started to think it was worth just giving it all away. Each time I have come back I thought I hadn't taken it too fast/ too long / too soon but perhaps so.

Where to from here?

Well I've decided to take it much much easier with running at the moment by thinking of what would be reasonable, and doing only a third of that... such as last week I only did 2 x 4km runs. I'm going to leave quite large gaps between runs and increase ever so marginally. As part of this new plan, I haven't set any target races so far. I'm sure it won't be long however before I attend say a 10km somewhere... and it would be good to even train say once a week or so with some of you once I get fitter again.

I'll probably still post say once a week or two, to fill in the gaps.