The saddest words of tongue and pen are these, “what might have been.” I am injured again. Yes, yes, I know. “Running is bad for you”, in finger quotes. But no, 2 days after the Manchester Marathon a couple of months back, when I was feeling great, I kicked my own ankle bone (spaz) and ended…
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12/10/2012 Addendum
The headphones situation has been resolved. I guess that is how I think of it. I was running with JLAB headphones that had good sound quality, but were regular ear buds. When running, as I would have my iPod Nano in the back pouch of my running shorts, and the cord threaded up inside my…
09/10/2012
A couple of things today as I am pretty sick, laid up on the couch, feeling like crap. Cough! My lungs have felt weak for a weak and, although I completed the Royal Parks half marathon, I have been very tired of late and just run down. I think I mentioned this in a previous…
04/10/2012
Disaster seems to have struck in its own inimitable style. First my knee is now playing up as the weather is changing for the worse and the compression bandage and anti-inflammatories are not working. And the last two runs my feet hurt. They hurt so much this time that I stopped after 2K of the most dreadful…
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