Proving someone wrong

I've had a great few days. Work has gone very well and I got a weeks worth of sales in one day. Training is also going as well as I could hope for. I did run/walking on a treadmill on Monday with a 6:2:6 ratio after completing 15 minutes on an elliptical machine. I found the running hard going, but I did it! Yesterday I attempted a session of stepping and did 20 minutes. I could easily have gone on (from a cardiovascular point of view) but didn't dare until I could assess today how my foot would be. In actual fact, my foot is fine.

Today I got an email from William reminding me of the bigger picture when it comes to run/walking and that it is important I do this ready for when I'm able to do an ultra again. I have to admit I had lost sight of this in my eagerness to get back running again. I'm really looking forward to doing the Cayman Islands Marathon, however I need to get my head back to what this race actually is... it's training.. nothing more, nothing less. I don't WANT to run marathons, and deep down I don't really care how long it will take me to do it (especially after the year I've had). If it takes me 6 hours, then so be it! I'm not after a PB, I'm after a good base ready for the first ultra I'm entered into in February 2013!

So, when I got home, with Williams' email in mind, I ran/walked 7:2:7. The second 7 minute section I ran as hard as my current fitness would allow and in the 16 minutes I had ran 1.57 miles. To most this is nothing, but I was absolutely chuffed. I was absolutely knackered too... God, my fitness has gone through the floor. I then came home and did the first set of squats I've managed for months (very light just to get me back into them) and my upper body workout. Having a bath afterwards was lovely as I eased muscles that have been aching since Friday. It's a lovely ache, but it's shocking how hardly anything has made me feel this way.

Graeme told me his brother had poo-pooed the fact that we are doing a marathon in 13 weeks time, telling him it's not enough time and we will never be ready, especially after my injury. This narked me a little... he really should just do his own thing and mind his own business, although I find when people tell me what I want to do is too difficult or impossible within a time frame, it spurs me on and makes me even more determined to prove them wrong. I'll show him!!!!