Tour & Dopey Training

Being injured is no fun!!

Dopey Costume Planning

I'm managed to strain my right quad (probably on the merry hills of Chester) so I can't run for at least a week.  It's been one day and already I'm going a little crazy, I want to go run and i'm gutted I can't go to today's Walton 5 miler.  

Image owned by C Suarez

Usually when this happens I either buy new trainers, enter lots of races or both but I'm trying to resist.  Thankfully, my friend Ceci sent me something to distract me, a photo of my new sparkle skirt that she's made for me.   My nephew decided it would be great for me to dress up as Maleficent  for one of the Dopey, hence the black and purple  It will go great with my Maleficent Mickey ears (which are pretty heavy so I'm pretty sure that this is my 5K costume) and a black running vest.  I love sparkle skirts but they're so difficult to get in the UK.  Before I met Ceci I was getting them from Sparkle Athletic but the postage cost is quite high.  Ceci is coming to Liverpool Rock n Roll so if anyone is interested in getting their own skirts then I can put you in touch with her.  She can do a range of colours and sizes and she can bring them to Liverpool next month so no postage costs. She has an etsy shop too at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Chilimargot if you want to have a look.

Tour & Dopey Training

I was meant to do about 40 miles this week but I decided a 7 mile hill session wasn't a good an idea after seeing the elevation for Chester.  I decided to give parkrun a miss too because I thought it might impact of getting a sub 2 at Chester.  In the end i decided a sub 2 was too unrealistic and but the pace group I was running with decided to go for 2:02/2:03 which would give me a pb and a club standard so I thought it was best to rest on Saturday.  

It turned out to be the right move because it seriously took every thing I had (and the best pacer ever) to finish Chester in 2:02:30 but I've decided that I need to forget about getting fast times in races now and just go back to racing for training.  At the start of the year I had planned to not go for any pb's but then I kept getting them and got a little distracted.  I need to focus on getting the miles up again now though so it's back to racing to finish.  I hurt my quad so no running this week but next week it's back to the plan.

Dopey

Two and a half years ago I was really ill. I was on my third of 5 neurologists who just kept changing me from one evil tablet to another. James took me on the most amazing holiday ever to cheer me up and whilst I was there in the most magical place on earth I realised how lucky I was. Then I found out that I could run and love doing it. It made up for all the things I lost and really was my lifeline. I came across Run Disney and it became a bit of an obsession (much to the annoyance of everyone who knows me :)). Every run I've done has pretty much been in preporation of getting to the point where I could go and run the four races in four days (even the tour is for training) because if it gets to the point where I can no longer running I'll have left nothing undone. Today I got in to Dopey! It took a while to sink in but it really is going to happen. I never question how incredibly lucky I am.  So what if I can't talk sometimes, I'm going to run Dopey!!