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Tuesday Oct 21, 2008

How to recover

The day after my 10k in May, I went to Ragdale Hall in Leicestershire as a recovery plan.  Though the journey up wasn't the most comfortable of my life, as I sat in the car with aching thighs and calves, after a massage and an hour or so in the thermal spa I began to feel better.

In the intervening four months, I've still been running, but my feet, ankles, calves, knees and hips are suffering still.  Getting orthotics apparently takes a ridiculous amount of time, and you need special ones to run long-distance, which means even more expenditure.  In a strange way, I'm really looking forward to the day I get the phone call to say the orthotics are in, though; running without aches and pains will be an entirely new experience!

I've got the first sponsorship monies in for the half-marathon now - and there's still five months to go.

Posted by Carrie ( 10:51 PM )
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