Due to other commitments, Joe asked that we run together on Tuesday rather than Wednesday this week. He's seen a professional about his injury and it turns out to be a ligament - the one that connects the Peronius Brevis muscle to the little toe (5th metatarsal). At least I think that's the one he's describing. Anyway, he's been resting it and wanted to try it out tonight. He suggested joining me on my hills session, I guess so that if and when necessary he could jog from the bottom of one hill to the bottom of the next while I sprinted up and jogged down. As my week was already out of sync having run on Monday, I offered to swap Tuesday and Wednesday in my schedule, as it makes little difference to me. So we ended up doing our usual Wednesday route on Tuesday, going clockwise again.
Conscious of Joe's injury, we kept to a steady pace, or so we thought, and I asked Joe at two or three points if he was okay, but somehow we managed to finish quicker than we have at least since my records started! Analysing the pace chart there was a short section (between 1½ and 1¾ miles) where we were considerably slower than usual, though I don't remember any hold-ups, otherwise we were faster than usual pretty much all the way.
Joe reports no problems with his foot, which is good, so it was a very positive session in all respects.
We have no races planned for the next few weeks, parkruns aside, so we'll probably be running at two of the next three Cannon Hill parkruns and one at Brueton, though I may be due a bit of a blowout one of these weekends!
Thinking about the pile-up of races in May/June, I'm thinking it might be a little optimistic to try three half marathons in seven weeks, so Malvern and Allerthorpe might just have to go, and the Burton 10 might slot in instead.
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