Having rested my back and calf have made some recovery, so rocked up to Heaton parkrun with the back strapped, smothered in Voltarol...
Meeting Rick Bennett again after all these years was a delight, Saturday mornings setting out Heaton parkrun all those years ago was great, we rarely got to run, so this was probably the first time we were running together!
Steve my parkrun buddy fresh from a night out on the beer was experiencing Heaton for the first time and I had prepped him for Angina Hill which he tackled well, it was ominous that he and Rick had only met today and both targeting under 25 minutes.
As you can see they had a close but no cigar moment!
For me, things went OK the back was angry but manageable and all was well until about 3.5K in. My fingers started to tingle (yes I had forgotten my gloves) so thought hmmm circulation, breathe more!
At that point, my right calf went with a pop and I thought "great, that's the run over" however by the time I reached the bottom of Angina Hill it did not seem to have slowed me down much so carried on.
Running around the golf course section I could hear my breathing, even with my ears full of music. so puffed on and my official time was 29:21 no danger of breaking my 19:00 PB on the course!
On Sunday I tried a quick jog to so if the back pain could be tolerated without all the pain relief... not a chance!
So will try for a couple 3K sessions during the week and next Saturday visit South Manchester parkrun which I have not been to since assisting the creation of it with Manchester University many years ago.
Keep running everybody!
Mark
