Long Sunday Run: Back again

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I was doing some gardening yesterday. I did not run on Sunday as today is a holiday and so I could recover from parkrun. I am not sure how I did it, but I hurt my back again. It is not too bad as I can still do most things. I thought I would see how it was today before deciding if I would run. I slept fairly well and it is not too painful, so I did run.

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I was seeing how it went to decide how far I would go. I was not getting pain from running and so decided to stretch it out a bit. In a week I am doing the Greenway Challenge half marathon around Letchworth and I think I am ready for it. I may do one more short run before that.

I went up to and through Fairfield to the main road on the other side and followed that to the track that cuts back to Standalone Farm where the race will start. I ran part of the course today. I stopped for a selfie by a field of sheep that also had a few geese grazing.

Selfie

This run was still hard work and I had a couple of brief walks, but I would hope that on race day I can be slightly quicker. I want to finish in under two hours.

Route

I saw a few other runners, including a lady in the same Standalone 10k shirt as me. There are a lot of those to be seen around here. It is a lovely morning and I will be happy if the conditions are similar next week. I just checked the forecast and it may be slightly warmer with no real chance of rain.

I see progress continues on the @strava2hive dapp. I could be interested in using that. Anything that makes it simpler to get posts onto Hive is good.

Run free and stay well.

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Sorry to hear about your back but that's good news that it isn't too bad to run. It's good to hear that you are ready for you half marathon as well. The training has paid off by the sounds of it.

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I get back problems now and then. It's just something I have to live with, but it's bad timing to get it so close to a race. I think I'll be okay anyway.

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Back in 2015 I had the bike shop give my Trek roadie a good once over. I took it home and tested it out in my neighborhood. Well something definitely wasn't right because the gears wouldn't shift. This was a difficult lesson to learn going uphill. I wound up falling off my bike and skinning my knee.

I promptly took my bike back to the shop and they fixed the problem. Normally this would be no big deal except it was two days before I was scheduled to leave for my cross country bike tour. On the drive to San Diego and the first few days of the bike tour, the skinned knee was more of an annoyance than anything else. Thankfully we stopped at Jacumba Hot Springs a few days in and the healing waters at Jacumba Hot Springs did their job and a few days later the skinned knee was but a faded scar.

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I hope your back is better for the half marathon!

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Me too. Judging by this run I should be okay. I wasn't really feeling any extra pain whilst out there. Doing this run gives me some reassurance that I'm ready for the race.

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Even with pain in your back, you have done a pretty long run, congrats.

Don't forget to reinforce the rest of the body, it is important to have a balance there in order to avoid stupid injures

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I try to do some other exercises. Maybe need a few more to strengthen my back. It's not too bad though, so I should be okay next weekend.

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14 km is a lot to me. Other than in competitions - that I don't even come close to winning but feel compelled to not stop moving due to the group mentality - I have only run this far one or two times in the past year.

Well done.

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It's a long way for me too, but I felt I needed it to prepare for my race.I just want to complete it really, but a nice time is a bonus.

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