I'm almost back in the land of the living!

Hellooooooo .......

I'm sure you've forgotten about me as it's so long since we last  talked ....... well eleven weeks infact ......

From my last post and subsequent silence you may have realised that I was  poorly! (Or just thought I'd given up blogging!)

Actually the understatement of the year ....... For those of you who know me , I don't do ill but this shingles shit was something else ...... and no I'm still not one hundred percent but I'm gradually getting there ............ however it has taken it out of me.

After my visit and subsequent diagnosis by my GP I assumed I'd be back up and running after a couple of weeks and certainly running the Bude RNLI race ........

..........in my dreams!

All I could manage was to drink wine and cheer everyone on!

It was the most awful feeling not being able to do it and the crap wine didn't help!!!

Still another couple of weeks and I'd be back training and at parkrun....

........ ha ha it seems my body had other ideas .......

But body listen there's the Bideford 10 on 1st November and coach Steph is giving us fab training advice! Oh and the Tavy 7 just before it.

My body clearly isn't listening or is it I'm not listening to my body???


Actually yes, I have listened to my body, I might have been very angry with it, but realised it must be very angry with me and in the end that I must rest to get better .....but it's gone on for what seems infinity!

So here we are eleven weeks on ......

Last Monday I trotted down the lane just to show myself that I was better and could do it! And I finally got back to Parkrun on Saturday and was chuffed with my time considering my lack of training! When I looked back on the app I was still faster than this time last year ...... result!

Yesterday I had another trot down the lane with the dogs and today rocked up to Parkrun expecting to do better than last week ........

Ok so let's not talk about it ........ it was hot and as I kept reminding myself on the way round, I am eleven weeks behind everyone and more importantly I have eleven weeks of fitness to catch up on so my worst time evvverrr at Parkrun is just a blip .........

........ it better be otherwise I'm not playing anymore!!