Three is a magic number (Pffft)

Well I've not posted for a while because basically I've had nothing to say, nothing, nada, niet....

I currently don't run and haven't for nearly 4 weeks, so writing on a running blog seems rather an odd thing to do.

I could start a non running blog and post the frustrations of all of the people who ever got injured but that would hardly be very cheery or inspiring would it ? I would become the Scrooge of the running world, "Bah humbugging" anything and everything that involves a pair of trainers, shouting in frustration at all those cheery running souls as they passed by my gloomy house of woe.

I am simply suffering from the dreaded "3" you know what I mean, the things that come in threes, currently very annoying things.

Firstly these, my legs which for a number of joined up reasons aren't working properly. So I have this Achilles tendinitis in both (I've mentioned it I know) which is linked to very tight calves which in turn is linked to "Apparently" my gluteus medius not firing properly, so ok now we are blaming my arse!

This astounding realisation was followed by a delightful dose of flu which laid me up in bed for a few days and the remnants of which still linger almost 3 weeks later.

Finally just to add insult to injury (See what I did there) I was working on a punch bag at my PT session taking out my non running frustrations when, a badly timed punch as the heavy bag came back at me, sent a shooting pain through a muscle in my side just below my ribs.

Tender, snotty and torn, not a firm of local solicitors but indeed my magic combination of three huge irritations.
Now I haven't recently kicked any cats, pushed in front of any pensioners in a post office queue or punctured the football of an annoying child, so this can't be Karma, no, apparently it is "One of those things" a statement you can just about take from a fellow runner but from a non runner.....never. That would be like me saying when your Sky Sports doesn't work and the dogs just emptied its bowels on you favourite armchair, "Oh well its just one of those things"

Anyway I write this post in sympathy and solidarity to any runner who is, has been and will be injured, keep the faith, ignore the ignorant and exercise your arse.

Not a frustrated face....not at all

Oh well December is here, Christmas just around the corner and then the New Year looms large with the next marathon challenge, I'm hoping by then I'll be back out there puffing an panting with the rest.

In the meantime if aliens invade the planet and force us all to live on only brussels sprouts for the rest of our days whilst producing methane to fuel their space crafts, don't worry, its just.....
"One of those things"