Mission accomplished

For 4-months I’ve been pounding the pavement training for the Onehunga Half Marathon.  Injury put woe to the Half, but I continued on training for the 10k event instead.  My goal was 55:00 or an average of 5:30min/km.  It was going to be tough, especially given I injured my foot last weekend.  The physio said that I could run if it didn’t hurt on a little 3k jog the day before, and it didn’t so I lined up.  About 3-4km into it I could feel my foot welling up (bugger it), but carried on anyway as I was running to schedule.

The physio might be a little annoyed, but hey, I’m giving them work to do! The last 3-km was particularly hard but I knew that a couple of people I wanted to beat were only 50-100 metres behind me so it was game on, finishing ahead of them and in 54:23 – ahead of my goal.  Woohoo!

I can barely walk now but hey Sunday afternoons are for relaxing, right?