Legs! Update
Previously on Ian’s Health…. I worked hard last year to get fit for a marathon on my 50th but a month before, after finishing the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon, discovered I had dangerously high blood pressure. Intense exercise was put on hold for a while and medication was prescribed which brought me back to a normal range but a reaction to the medication gave me swollen ankles and sore feet so my re-ascent to fitness was delayed again. Meanwhile trouser waist bands feel slightly tighter and following a change to medication my BP is slightly elevated again. Now, read on…
I went out for a run earlier this morning. I can’t say it was the fastest or longest run I’ve ever done and it was certainly hard going to keep going, but I did just short of a 5K, including Kaimes Hill, in 31 minutes including about 4 minutes of walking. As I said somewhere earlier, it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped but not as bad as it could have been. And it felt great to be running outside in the sharp chilly air again.
Hopefully I won’t have aggravated anything in my right foot which currently feels much as it did about six weeks after I had a severe sprain a few years back (7 February 2006 blogged about here). I’ll see what three days of wandering around Paris does to it.
And finally for today, two quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Reaper Man which appealed to me-
- William Spigot was the one that sang when he worked, breaking into that long nasal whine which meant that folk song was about to be perpetrated
- ‘The lads usually bring a couple of barn doors down here and nail ’em together for a proper floor’, observed Miss Flitworth, ‘Then everyone can join in’.
FOLK DANCING? said Death, warily
‘No. We have some pride, you know’
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