Yesterday was the Santa Fun Run that I signed up for with Trent, Nic & Robyn. Trent and Robyn walked the route, where as Nic and I ran it.
It looked great as we went along with all these people in Santa suits (everyone registered for the fun run was given a santa suit), would have been weird for people to see it if they had no idea it was on.
Now I bet you are wondering if we were right with the route we had been training on. You probably aren't but I will tell you anyway. The Tuesday run was closer to being right than the Thursday one was, just the opposite direction to what we had be running.
As you are probably aware my general time for 4km is 35ish minutes. I made it my aim yesterday to beat that. I jogged the last 1km and made it in 31min 50 sec. I have to say I am pretty chuffed with that. Mind you, now that Nic knows I can do that he will probably make me run 1km before I can go back to a walk. I do think the periods of walking are getting smaller though, which can only be a good thing as it means I am getting a lot fitter. Trent & Robyn walked it in about 50mins.
After the run my leg was so painful, just so tight and sore. As the day went on it slowly got worse, to the point that not even I could touch it without it hurting. Trent wanted to rub it to help it but the idea just made me cringe. I decided that if it wasn't better by today I would see the dr.
This morning when I stood up it seriously felt like my leg was going to snap in half. Shit it hurt. I got Trent to book me in to see the dr but he couldn't see me til tomorrow. I ended up taking myself to a walk in clinic the pain was that bad.
Turns out I have shin splints. I have to rest and no running or unnecessary walking for a week. I know it is only a week which is good, as it could have been worse if it was a stress fracture. I have a feeling that by the end of the week I will be going a little stir crazy though. Hopefully I will get straight back into it all next week.
Distance travelled today: 4km
Distance travelled so far: 161.34km
Distance left to travel: 25,592.66km
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