Running from Zombies

After Ally had massaged my hamstring on Sunday it was really sore and painful to the touch, though didn’t really hurt to stretch and so by Tuesday afternoon I assumed I’d be OK to run on it. Unfortunately the weather decided otherwise, with rain, wind and a temperature that refused to break 10 degrees.

Instead I decided to spend some time maintaining my archery gear. I thought it was about time to actually fix some of the damaged arrows, put my string back in one piece and replace the old pressure button with the new one I’ve had for the last 10 months. I’d hoped this would help me break 540 on Saturday.

Wednesday: Basketball in the evening started slow but built up to a pretty fast-paced 2 on 3 game (or maybe it was just fast-paced for me as I was one of the 2!)

Friday: Quite disappointed that this was the first time I’ve managed a run this week, but the thermometer read 13 degrees and the sun was trying to break through the clouds so I thought I might try a 14k run. Unfortunately it didn’t really go as planned. While it wasn’t especially cold I was having trouble breathing and despite slowing down, I couldn’t seem to get enough air into my lungs. In the end I decided that trying the full 14k would be a miserable experience. Luckily, 5k into the 14k route takes me to within a km of home so I did a detour and ended it at 5.8km (38:35). Went to archery in the evening and had a few practice shots before Saturday’s Portsmouth. The new pressure button didn’t behave so took the old one on Saturday.

Saturday: After a rather long meeting at archery I finally got to shoot my Portsmouth and scored a rather disappointing 532. I wasn’t really feeling it today so I’ll just be glad I broke 530 and try again next week.

Sunday: Basketball was pretty quiet today, just Ally and Jamie (the coach) for the first half an hour. We did some dribbling, some shooting, and then when Paul arrived we played some full court 2-on-2. Was a really good game and it’s made me feel a bit more positive about the upcoming one against Bury Bombers.

Total Run: 5.8km

Not a great week for running – I really wanted to do that 14km run at some point but it never happened. Hopefully there’ll be any opportunity for it next week some time.