After two weeks and four days without being able to go for a run, I managed to do it this morning. I couldn´t go because I had an injury in my right calf. The first days were awful since I had to limp a lot. I massaged myself with Traumeel and I felt better. Anyway, I missed a 10 km race at Laujar although I went with PaulK and his wife M., who were spending a week in their house in the province of Almería. We had a good time there and he did a good race although it was a bit tough. There, we met a lof of running friends such as Encarna, Pepe, Javier, Manuel, David, Santi etc.
In this time I´ve just walked to school every day and ridden a little on bicycle. I´ve lost two kilos because I´ve had diarrhoea since Wednesday so I had to fast the first day and eat just yoghurt or rice the other days.
This morning I went for a run. I started at the Almadrabillas esplanade just opposite home. I did some stretching before running andI went along the sea front as far as the end in 18 minutes. There I stopped to stretch again. Then I came back and stopped after five minutes to talk to Jorge, a runner who was with two more runners. They had done 18 kilometres. He told me that he had been nearly three months without training because every time he tried to go for a run he had a terrible pain in his hip. He went to several traumatologists and had some tests but they didn´t know what happened to him. They thought it was a calcification. Then, he went to another traumatologist, who was a mate of mine at secondary school, Dr Isidoro Pascual, and just after telling him to lie down at the examining couch told him he just had a leg a little big longer then the other one. So, he just needed orthotics. After putting his orthotics on, he could run without any pain!
After four minutes´ talk, I went on and got to the esplanade in 18 minutes again. There, I did some stretching and went home.
Objective : Valencia half marathon
