New year, new excuses?

[Seafront Plodder]

I had not run a yard since completing the New York Marathon in early November. I wanted to keep the running going, I really did, but a nagging back-of-the-knee injury was followed by a cold was followed by compulsory Christmas excesses. Here I am, a month off the first ½ marathon of the year, and no training has been done!

I was fairly confident that the miles were still in the legs so the success or otherwise of this morning’s run was always going to be down to how easy the breathing was going to be. It wasn't.

Even by my plodding standards the 3 miles I covered was slow, my GPS jobbie probably thought it had been attached to a tortoise. But I did finish, and boy was it hard. Hard as fu...

nnily enough I found the last 1/3 of a mile easier than the first. I'm still working that one out.

It wasn’t pretty, and it certainly wasn’t quick, but at least I now feel the 2005 campaign has started, with the first run safely under the (recently expanded) belt.

The other ‘injury’ I have as a legacy of New York is a big toe nail that I am shortly to lose. It’s too brittle to trim and not ready to fall off. I thought you’d all like to know that; so much so that I have a new avatar!

It’s good to be back out there though.