#myrunning

Absolutely savaged myself for how hard and terrible this run felt but then I sat down by the river for a bit and remembered…

1. It’s my first outdoor/trail run since last autumn

2. I haven’t ran in 2 weeks and only been able to run 4 times this month due to injuries (tendonitis in my knee and some minor shin splints)

3. I’ve had 0 appetite and haven’t eaten a proper meal in a week for god knows what reason

4. I’ve only been back running for a bit over 2 months anyway

My new shoes first run! I was supposed to do interval training today, but because it was my first run in a new pair of shoes I swapped it out for a 5k instead.

It went pretty good, I’m liking these new shoes so far (but I am a massive new balance fan girl). I’ll give them a few weeks and see how they go. The real test will be my long run on Saturday.

Everybody comes home from the gym and makes a pizza, right??! (Don’t judge the toppings, I have a toddler and I also have toddler preferences 😅) 🍕🍍

Completely amazed that my body let me run half an hour today given that I’ve been really ill for 8/9 days. It was only 2 days ago that I was having to lie down after going to the shop 🙄

Definitely not back to normal yet because my strength was way down when I did the gym this morning and then my heart rate was up to 180 within the first few minutes of running whereas it normally only gets there towards the end.

I know I’m banging on but I actually cannot get over how iron tablets have taken me from barely able to stand up for an hour to being able to run for 45 mins straight (albeit slowly)

This is also my first post long Covid and post partum 5K. Can’t even remember the last time I ran 5K but it must be 6/7/8 years ago.

Life lately & yet another attempt to return to posting on tumblr. I'm finally not injured anymore! Knock on wood, still feels precarious to say that. When I thought I had tendinitis in my ankle 1.5 years ago I actually tore a ligament, apparently, and a lot of the pain I had since which kept me off running most of that time was scar tissue. Been running consistently since January and finally starting to get back into some longer runs now and trust the ankle. It's sooo nice to have running back. Also been writing a lot, I wrote the first draft for a new novel-length project in 31 days which is by far the fastest I've EVER written anything and I'm so excited about the story!!