How was your weekend running?
Maranoia is one thing, living in a house of germs is another. Please wash your hands with plenty of soap and hot water before venturing below the line to tell me your weekend running exploitsSo. six days until Berlin marathon. It’s all been going well: good track sessions in training, no injuries (touch wood) and on Saturday I got a 5k PB at Fulham Palace parkrun (18m 42sec and before you ask - yes it is fine and normal and perfectly usual to do a 5k race a week before a marathon). While having a bad 5k race is fairly meaningless in the context of marathon prep, having a good one and getting a PB is obviously a nice confidence boost. Then a 10 miler yesterday for my last “long” run. So, as I say, all going well.
Too well? Well, I’m currently praying to the gods of hygiene and those of marathon running, and inhaling a cloud of Dettol, because my seven year old has come down with a particularly nasty strain of the norovirus. Anyone got a Hazmat suit I can borrow to give her a comforting hug in? Any handy tips about how to get her to drink any fluids? How to avoid germs, other than the liberal use of bleach and handwashing so much I think my skin may fall off? Or, err, anyone got a hotel I can move into for the duration instead?
So, as usual, please share your own weekend triumphs and woes below the line as always. Just make sure you are germ-free, ok?