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Wednesdays are a killer day for me, training-wise. I start the day early with a DC Run group training session hosted by champion athlete Victoria Mitchell before work, hit the gym at lunch for something light like yoga or a swim, and then I finish the day with Nike Run Club.

This morning was a tough session with Vic and I must be honest and say that I feel like I I let her down as I did not get the chance to give it 100%. Unfortunately during the session my hamstrings muscles and adjoining muscles started to tighten up, so because of the pain I decided that it was better to not push it, and take a step back. Especially so close to the marathon.

We were doing 600m intervals and on the 2nd last one I took some fuel off the fire nearer to the end and slowly jogged the last 100m. I had to do the same again on the last interval too as the muscles (especially in my right leg) were burning and felt like they were rock hard. It was really limiting my movement so I took it easy on the slow jog back to the office too.

I was a bit worried, as I knew I had run club tonight and needed to be able to run 7km. One of my team mates suggested a hot bath and it gave me the idea that during my lunch break I should hit the sauna & spa at my gym. And i’m so glad that I did, my legs are feeling much better now and I should be fine taking the slower pace group tonight.

Tomorrow I have a 1 hour remedial massage scheduled and i’m sure that afterwards my muscles will be feeling fabulous. But if not, I promise to take it easy for my 20km run on the weekend and to visit the physio next week as a precaution. Better to be safe than sorry.

I’m really looking forward to run club tonight now too, let’s hope it stays dry.

Happy running 🙂