Miraculous!!!

....46 days to go......

I feel like such a drama queen now. Hard though it is to believe considering the state I was in last night, I have actually just got in from a 4 mile run! Yes; that's four miles.

So how did that happen? Who cares?!! Happened it did and I am happy bunny because of it. Woke up this morning with a clear ear and a clear nose, and some nasty looking gunk under my now unswollen eye. By the time I was showered and shaved I was looking surprisingly fit and healthy; not only that, I was FEELING surprisingly fit and healthy.

It was so nice to get back out on the road again. Not only did it allay last nights concerns over lack of exercise - keeping my body used to the shuddering pain and joy (??!) of long distance running - it also gave me my fix. Yes, even harder to believe than the miraculous recovery is that I am now hooked on running. Mentally I am still as nervous as I ever was when I don 'the shoes' - and part of me still hates it - but physically the sensation is very different. My body seems to relax into the rhythm, and literally take each session in its stride. Contrast that with the physical reaction to NOT running for say, three days running, and that is cause enough to get out there.

Can you believe that when this challenge started I would struggle to run one lap of a running track; and now I talk about four miles like it's shelling peas?!! I'm not sure I can.....it's almost like I'm......like......athletic. But don't worry; I still don't look it.

Here's hoping that tomorrow's post does not regale you of my relapse into gammy eye, nose, ear.......pick a body part.......