Bah! Humbug!

It occurred to me this week that today, Friday December 17th, is four months from M Day.

As already blogged, I have my race schedule all planned out, I have my guide runners in place and I know what will be required in terms of training.

With Christmas fast approaching, this means for many plenty of time off. That goes for me, and I have two of my four regular guides pretty much free for the duration. Of the other two, one is injured and the other has gone to Australia to supervise
England’s attempts of retaining The Ashes.

There is one problem though.

Since my name came out of the hat in November I have been either ill, injured, or as is currently the case, both.

I’m told the thie problem I’ve been having is due to a twisted hip. This has been seen to once and will get another session on Monday.

As I write this my tempriture has regained some sense of human normality, it was 100 on Wednesday night.

The latter has resulted in my missing of both a work and Stragglers Christmas gatherings in the last couple of days, hense the subject for this blog. Annoying though this is, if the cold was going to make me ill I’d far rather it was while I was injured, hopefully I’ll be rid of both in time for the Christmas Day Parkrun in Bushy Park.

It won’t be the end of the world if I don’t get the running in over Christmas I was aiming for, but it will certainly be mighty frustrating.