Resilience

has been the watchword this week. The neck felt better after the Osteopath so decided to run on Tuesday night. Did an hour and it felt fine but woke up on Wednesday morning and it was as stiff as a board. Not good.

Really struggled with the motivation on Wednesday night to do anything. The neck was still sore, I was really really tired and just couldn't really be bothered. It was also swim club night and Chris wasn't working so could have gone but really don't think I would have been able to turn my head far enough round to breathe. Talked it over with Chris and he advised me to take the night off and have a jacuzzi round at the gym. I was set on that path for all of 2 seconds as the decision came with a wave of guilt that I just couldn't shoo away.

So, onto the turbo I climbed for an hour brick. The first 25 minutes were interminable. The neck didn't hurt apart from turning to look at the session sheet but I found my resilience somewhere and by the time I got on the run, I was into it. This is why a goal and a race is good. Without one, falling asleep on the sofa would have been the only outcome.

Neck no stiffer this morning too so clearly hasn't done me any harm and at least I start another day without a pall of guilt hanging over me.