Well then. Training was going very well until the past week or so. A re-occurrence of an old injury (ribs) and a routine blood test put me off the road for a week.
Last October I suffered a very unusual injury to my ribs, popping a catelidge (I'll never get the spelling right) inbtween two of my ribs. It took me over 3 months to recover from it but over the past week it's started to flare up again but, after giving it a 5 day rest it seems to be ok after training last night. Fingers crossed it keeps away.
The other issue that had me off the road was cholesterol. A routine blood test with my GP showed my cholesterol was 6.4 with my LDL being 3.8. Now, being only 26 this is pretty high but my GP reckons that it is genetic rather than diet based and so I'm now on tablets to reduce it. I've to take these for 2 months and we'll see where it goes. DAMN GENETICS! Ah well, hopefully the tablets will work.
As far as training goes I'm about to bump it up to level 2 of 6 which will mean less time in the gym and more time on the road. I've gotten a good deal of really good advice from people that have run marathons before about the mental aspect of running for long distances so I'm hoping to put some of that into practise over the coming weeks.
This is not a very exciting blog is it!?
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