Don’t whisper, don’t talk, don’t run if you can walk, don’t cheat, compete, don’t miss the one beat

Today I decided to tackle the big one, the figure 8 run which is a total of 10.5km. I’ve been feeling pretty good with my running but have been aware that I need to up the distance if I want to really achieve some results, so today was the day.

For some reason the front half of this run is really easy, I get to my standard drink stops in North Hagley Park quickly and feeling nice and fresh. Today was no exception but I did notice that my lower calf muscles felt tight and sore whenever I stopped, fortunately the pain went away as soon as I started to run again.

Aside from some initial stiffness in one achilles tendon, the highlight of this run from a suffering point of view would have to be my foot going numb. (Bonus points if you get the reference in the title) I’ve had my right foot go numb on me a couple of times before, most notably between 13 and 18km in the half marathon but never my left foot before.

I’m not too worried about it happening as once I stop it immediately starts to come right, however it’s something I will be keeping an eye on as I don’t want to make this a regular feature of my running. Oddly it doesn’t seem to be related to distance, my foot started to go numb before I hit the 3km mark and was fully numb by 4km.

The run itself was enjoyable, I got around without ever feeling I was really struggling and turned in a respectable time. Not plodding, not setting any records, just getting from A to B (well back to A, it’s a round trip).

My iPod tells me that this run burns around 900 calories so no wonder I lost a whole pile of weight doing this every second day.

Tomorrow I’ll be taking it easy with some yoga and balance games on Wii fit. I have my eyes on Jess’s ski jump record, then Wednesday I’ll be off to referee training at Rugby Park. It’s free and tailored to referees so why not take advantage of it?

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