Injured...again

Well a few things to talk about in this post as somehow two weeks have slipped by since I last posted. Firstly, although the heading of the posts says that I am injured, which I sort of still am, I am mostly recovered now. It was a strange right foot injury that occurred not during my Saturday long run on the 2nd but about four hours after. I was just walking around the kitchen at home and I felt a strange mild twang/pain in the heel of my right foot. It was then quite painful to walk on and there was no hope of me running on it. I of course was naturally thinking the worst and getting ready to 'scratch' myself from the run to the G on Sunday. To make things worse my Polar running computer arrived from overseas on the Tuesday and after waiting very patiently for it to arrive I couldn't even use it when it arrived. All this meant that I was angry and depressed for about three days last week but thankfully the injury has steadily improved and I went running with my new watch on Saturday and it is everything I hoped for - although I still need to refine the distance calibration a little as it measured about 4km on a 3.8km circuit and naturally was telling me that I'm running a little faster than I actually am - which wasn't all that bad for my ego :-). I can still feel the injury a little but I am sure that it will be 100% by the time Sunday comes around and I will be jumping out of my skin looking for that PB. So there it is, I have finally announced it. This will be my second half marathon, in my inaugural one in Wellington last year I scraped under my goal time of 1hr30 with a 1:29:48 having blown up slightly in the last couple of kms.

I will be extremely happy if I can beat that time this year, as I'm sure I was fitter, less injured and more motivated to run a time last year...here come the excuses, Wellington is a lightning fast course (in good weather which we had last year), whereas this course on Sunday is a bit more up and down with a few gentle rises and falls that I reckon make it at least a two minute slower course over the distance. However, my running computer has also predicted that I can run a sub 1hr30m based on my current fitness, so provided I give it my all, that PB is possible. Even if I don't get it, it will be useful for me to see where I am at. The real goal race this year is the Melbourne half marathon in October for which 1hr25min must be the target.