Damage limitation

Just when you thought I'd come to my senses and dropped all this 'mind over matter' stuff, I have to say no, I am still as queer as a bottle of crisps!
I decided early on today (before my run on the treadmill) that my little space ship may not be enough today unless I constantly was thinking about my foot. I wondered if I could sort of put someone "on watch" who could just sort my foot out for me if it started to hurt.... Would that work? Is that a visualisation technique that would be ineffective? Is that against the rules of this technique? Well, it's my brain isn't it? I can do what I want as long as I believe it can work!

So, Bob was down there sorting everything out and now Brian has took over the shift. I get an ache or a pain somewhere in my foot and they do the business to fix it while I am too busy to sort it out. A sort of damage limitation!
My foot is just feeling marvellous today, I'm so pleased with it. Another technique is to shorten the injury time by thinking about the duration of the recovery lowering... so, the podiatrist thinks it will take 2 months before my foot feels normal... that's the 20th of June. Well, the 19th of June is only one day before that... then there's the 18th... but of course a week before that (13th) is my wedding anniversary... I wouldn't want to have a poorly foot then in case we are going somewhere special... so I need it REALLY to be better by the 12th... oh well... we may as well call it the beginning of June and have done with it!

And do you realise how many elite athletes do this sort of thing? Quite a few Olympic medallists are mentioned in the book... so I'm insane with very good company! :-)

My mam asked me to enter a Race for Life 5K today, so we entered the one in Durham. She has 10 weeks to get fit, and she will do great. She has gone from saying she will tell nobody she has started running to blurting it out to her two best friends and my nana. I really am very proud of her!