Run - Ice - Box - Ice

I was nervous this morning when I got up. How would the run go? Would I get to a mile without being in sheer agony? Would I manage the whole planned 2 miles? Would I get through it only for my foot to hurt once I'd finished? Well, when you have so many questions there's only one thing to do... go and do the run and find out!

The first mile my foot felt like my sock was crumpled up in my shoe. I knew it wasn't... this happened when overcoming the neuroma and I knew if things were the same, then that feeling would only last around 10 minutes. That's all it did last for and I felt fine after that. I chose a 3:1 run/walk and to be honest, I expected to have to change that to 2:1 or even 1:1, but I didn't have to. The second mile was great apart from the last 3 minutes where my foot felt quite tired.

I iced it straight away for 10 minutes and after a bath we then went shopping. We found a host of lovely food items to try and when we got back from the shops my book I'd ordered had come (Animal Free Shopper). I was quite excited to see loads of things I had "veganized" to Graemes' side of the cupboard could come back as the dodgy looking ingredients all came from plant derivatives instead of animal. Despite Graeme saying he didn't want to eat all vegan stuff, he has backtracked on this and when we bought food for the kids he chose to eat my food instead of eating what the kids had.

Tonight I did my first proper boxing session (with my own non-smelly gloves). I managed 30 minutes of very tough fast jabs/punches and uppercuts. I was seriously shattered throughout and afterwards. I was quite OK at it actually, and am looking forward to doing it again. What a great workout! I iced my foot again straight afterwards (just in case!) and I'm feeling very happy (now that I've got over the cry I had after reading some awful information on animal cruelty in my new book... I'm too soft, I really shouldn't read all of these things!)

So, I'm very pleased with todays' training. One thing I noticed was how happy I felt after my run. It just goes to show that no matter what exercise I do, nothing gives me a high like running does! I can't wait to run again.