Last week proved to have some good steps forward towards recapturing the early form of the challenge, particularly in being able to run five days in the week. Hopefully, Week 8 will see me be able to start to increase the overall distances that I am covering.
Monday’s run was probably the most challenging to complete, not due to it being the beginning of the week but rather due to a bout of food poisoning. I didn’t sleep well on the Sunday evening, up for a significant part of the night with stomach pains, sweating and feeling really hot and flushed. When I got to my usual running place, instead of heading straight out, I needed to find a toilet where I was for next twenty-five minutes before being able to get started. I had intended to do a 10km run, however this got reduced to 5km just incase I needed to get back to the bathroom in a hurry. Luckily I didn’t.
The remainder of the week went quite well running wise. I kept with maintaining the 5km rather than pushing limits. This was done for two reasons, firstly to just give that one more week of ease for my side strain, I really don’t want to run into complications with that one, and secondly because of my upcoming gig scheduled for the end of the week and wanting to get as much extra time on my saxophone as possible. The positive is that I got through the five runs, and no injuries.
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Looking forward to what can occur in the next week!
