Beating Back the Beast - two weeks

My run mapper asked me to describe my run today, I gave it a one word rating......horrible. I had spent the day at a writing seminar and when I got home really wasn't feeling up to training at all. It's crazy but the Beast likes to mess with my head. You would think  sitting around doing nothing physical at all would be like a rest for the body wouldn't you? Not with the Beast playing its games it's not.

I had to cross my legs today to manage to write in my notebook. You know how you cross your legs and push up on your tip toes so you don't have to hunch over? Or is that just me? Anyway all that l;eg crossing and tip toeing left my knees swollen and sore to touch and my feet aching. Ridiculous I know but that is the way of the Beast. Even if you give it no reason to bite it will strike anyway.

Running seemed like an onerous chore by the time I got home, but I committed to this thing so there is no backing out. I managed to do a 2 k run walk and shaved around 20 secs per k off the run compared with last week. Not as much as I had hoped to do but I suppose if I factor in the condition of my  knees and feet plus the fatigue that was threatening to drown me
it was a reasonable effort.

Tonights effort for dinner was roast chicken with coleslaw and roast kumara, mmmmm I love roast night and although the kumara may have some negative side effects it does leave me feeling satisfied after my meal.

Bring on week 3