On and up

So far, so good.  On Saturday I ran the Eastleigh parkrun and clocked in at 20:23, compared to my effort 2 weeks earlier of 21:40.  My intention had been to go 30 seconds faster, but I overshot a bit.

I'm making a strong effort to keep the tricky balance between working the Achilles tendon (good) and stressing it (bad).  I've been running more days than not since Christmas, and broadly I'm feeling fine.  I may get the odd twinge but it's coping pretty well with steadily increasing demands.

In 2 weeks I'm doing my first competitive event for ages - the Southampton 5k Glow in the Park event.  Greatly looking forward to it, but must, must be sensible.  Quite a strange feeling, focussing on keeping my time high... I should probably aim to do it in 20 minutes, a nice round 4 minute k pace.

What I did notice on Saturday was that although my legs were fine, my lungs found the course surprisingly hard work.  Apart from the odd hill when cycling, I haven't really worked at full lung capacity for ages, and this is going to need some work.