And to that end I was out when I got back from work doing the 5km run out of my village. The aim was to go at a reasonable pace, if I could manage it, and to concentrate on my lower legs and feet. There was no intention of breaking any records today.
Everything started off ok, although I really should have put another layer on today. As it had been nice and sunny all day, I was wearing just a T-shirt most of the time. So I thought a base layer and my hi-vis top would be fine. Turns out the wind was rather cold again! But being daft, I had gone round the corner by this point, so I just kept going instead. Thankfully, my breathing was ok and it only meant I wasn't as warm as I would have liked to be.
It wasn't until near the half way mark that my ankle started to ache again. You can see this as the spikes in the centre of the pace chart below, as I was stopping to stretch a little bit. This soon calmed down, and as I turned for home it was my shin that took up the lead and ached instead. Rather than stopping, I found altering my stride length a little helped with this. I didn't want to keep stopping, as that puts me off my rhythm and I was getting a bit colder each time too.
All in all, I did what I wanted to do today, but it won't set the world alight. It was meant to be a gentle run and it was, even if I was going a little quicker than I intended as I'm still rubbish at pacing myself.
Whilst I wasn't consciously speeding up on the way back, it is slightly downhill. And my shin had stopped aching, so I wanted to push on a little bit where I could but I did forego my usual sprint finish. I also made sure to do a good 10 minutes of stretching today, something I am usually terrible at doing properly. All feels good now, but we'll see what it's like in the morning!!
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