exhilarating torture..

Monday - 6m in 41min - mostly between 6:40 and 7:00 pace - regular route through Green Park and around Hyde Park.

so it's really hot in London at the moment.. 29C at lunchtime yesterday. while i managed to stay in the shade for most of the run round, there are some stretches where there's no cover. i'm really not that bothered by hot weather, but this was getting near the limit. got around happily and felt pretty good for most of the way. the achilles problem of last week was there at the start, but went after i loosened up through the first mile..

but last night and this morning, it's a different story. i spent the evening potting up a few plants in the garden, so we have a nice display of flowers through the summer.. and have some tomatoes to pick. when i came in, i started to feel it quite severely. i applied some ibuprofen gel and thought that would be enough. but it wasn't. later i resorted to the ice pack - and that's what i'm doing right now. no great effect yet, as it's very sore.

while it's no great shakes if i can't run the 10k on Sunday - my preparation hasn't been great, and i can always enter one later in the year on the run up to the Windsor half - it's a bit disappointing to get an injury. it's annoying at any time, but in the week before a race, it's doubly so.