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Run 2 of week 10 was supposed to be a bit of a landmark moment as it was the first run of my training programme without any walk breaks. It was a short run, so only 25 minutes. I ran for 40 minutes last time, so should have been achievable.
Alas, the short run struck again and I had one of my least enjoyable runs to date. For a start it was freezing, and breathing in very cold air isn't pleasant. Then, quite early on my right shin started hurting and got progressively worse. To make matters worse, there were a lot of free roaming cows on the road. They weren't particularly enamoured with me running towards them and really didn't like my metronome, so I had to do a lot of stopping and starting. Cows don't bother me, but if I'm bothering them I don't want them to panic and step out in front of cars. So although I ran for 25 (painful) minutes, there were lots of short pauses for cows and vehicles. Not the 25 glorious minutes of uninterrupted running I'd hoped for.
Meh. There are good runs and bad ones. I'm not letting this crappy run deter me, though I really need a strategy for reducing shin pain. Annoyingly I'm not sure what brings it on during certain runs and not others. It's usually on the right though, so there's some sort of imbalance at the root I'm sure. And yes I DID do a proper dynamic warm up before running today, so that shouldn't have been the cause. More work to be done.
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