Day 202: Pleasure and pain on a tarn run

RUN: 3.8 miles

A nice sunny day today, so a nice little trip to Yeadon Tarn was in order.
Quite a few people had the same idea, so it was a bit crowded.

The birds were out in force, too. It's a good, interesting run at the tarn because there's always something going on and something to look at, whether it's the birds lining up, a swan terrorising children or a plane taking off from the airport next door.

My legs really hurt today. It's the inside of my left leg near my ankle bone. It really pulls and gives me a stabbing sort of pain. I'll try to stretch it more.

Here's today's run

Day 201: Feeling sick and falling to bits

RUN: 1.1 miles

I didn't have time to grab any lunch at work today, so I decided to have some tea before going out for my Friday run. I think I went too soon after eating though, because I felt really sick.

My knee was behaving weirdly too, clicking and crunching all the way. My body was definitely protesting at having to move. So I turned back and headed home in the hope of avoiding seeing my dinner again.

Call me strange, but I recorded the sound of my knee for you to hear as it was clicking so loudly!

listen to ‘Click click’ on Audioboo

Here's today's run

Day 199: A tiring way to commute

RUN: 7.7 miles

I've put myself down to work late shifts every Wednesday from now until the end of May, so for the next 19 weeks I'll be running to work midweek as part of my marathon training.

Today was the first run into work. After the initial uphill section, the next mile is downhill from Guiseley to Baildon. I thought that would be the easiest part, but it was rather painful to do so much downhill. At one point I was worried I'd have to think of a plan B to get to work, but the pain ran off eventually and it was quite a nice run in the end.

Still quite pleased to get to work, though (and it's not often I say that!)

Oh, and I've made it past the 500-mile mark!!

Here's my first run into Bradford

Day 198: just missed 500 miles

RUN: 2.0 miles

Before today's run, I did a quick calculation in my head to work out how far I'd need to go to make 500 miles today. So I did the two-mile route.

On getting back I added the route to my total and somehow I'd managed to miscalculate! So my running total is 499.5 miles. So close to the half-way point!

Here's today's run