This was never going to be easy, having barely run in the last 4 months. Most of last week I couldn't even walk with gout, and I've had a strained adductor since mid December, which gives shooting pains down my thigh if I try to run.
So this so-called race was really a test to see if I could run pain free. I deliberately didn't race for the first kilometre, thinking I could make places with that approach. The 2nd kilometre I felt OK, and passed a few folk and thought I might get away it, but then around kilometre 3 the wheels came off and I realised I was running on empty, and just went backwards the rest of the race to record my slowest ever 10k.
I knew even before I started that this would be my slowest 10k, but I was still hoping to get under 40 minutes, and just managed this by clocking 39:49, which was more than 5 minutes slower than 2 years ago.
My right adductor is now extremely sore, so I guess I won't be racing again for a while.
Bleedin 'ell Chris! i was wincing even reading this! Why would you enter a race scenario to 'find out' if yer still injured and sore - just to have it confirmed?! Ker-what?! Why didn't you just train on it and see how it went?! Yours in wincing confusion..!
ReplyDeleteI guess it didn't make any sense to enter that race, but I've been getting super-depressed and fed up not being able to run the past 4 months. What is most frustrating is that last Sept/Oct I was the fittest I'd been in a couple of years, then getting ill in Nepal and wrenching my adductor have scuppered all plans since.
ReplyDeleteI hear that Chris, still think you were bit daft setting yersel up for pain an dissapointment, mad bloke. That said, I do understand. Speedy sensible recovery to you pal.
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