I am so shattered! I have had the worst run these last few weeks…and I don’t mean an actual run…more like a series of ridiculous events which are getting in the way of my running and completing the Couch to 5K (C25K)!!
First Ridiculous Event:
Helping my brother move house which is always good fun, until you have to move the mattress! I ‘did’ my back lifting the mattress! Great! It was quite scary not being able to walk, at all! So there I am laid up in bed for a few days on some pretty full-on painkillers.
Fortunately I bounced back quite quickly from this, a few visits to the Osteo and Myotherapist and I was as right as rain, but it really gave me a better understanding of people who have back pain. My mum injured her back many years ago when she was nursing, (and isn’t that just the way things go? People who are in the ‘helping people’ industry getting hurt themselves because they put others first?), and she has had chronic back pain ever since. I feel so much for her, and others, who are in this situation. It’s not a nice way to spend a few days and must be an awful way to spend your life.
Second Ridiculous Event:
I got the flu…not one week later and laid low by the stoopid flu!!!! There is no way I am going to go running the way I am feeling right now, which is somewhere between death warmed up and hell! I have had this thing for two weeks now and feel like I cannot shake the last vestiges of crappiness…and I refuse to make it worse by putting my body under pressure it obviously doesn’t need…
So I am cramming in as much good and healthy food as I can, loads of rest and a few days off work.
Missing running.