I haven’t signed up for Juneathon yet, but I’m blogging and running just to keep my hand in. You never know, I might even add my name to the spreadsheet at some point. Chances are that I’ll blog about a mix of things rather than just the running – Android nameservers, for example. I’m off to Glastonbury at the end of the month and so would probably fail at the very last hurdle. I like the idea of running around the streets of Pilton and Glastonbury, but I prefer the idea of crawling out of the tent, blinking in the midday sun and going to find some cider and music.

Yesterday I took things easy, well mostly easy – we went for a walk up Rivington Pike in the morning. I didn’t measure it, but the fancy fitbit app thing said that we’d walked 7k – which is obviously a vast under-estimation. Or not. It felt like a lot more, probably due to all the walking-up-hill. And yes, I understand that half of it was downhill, but we took the long way uphill, and the short way down. Or at least that’s what I’m going to say.

I also did half an hour picking up the weights and dipping my toe into the New Rules of Lifting again. After the MK half marathon I had a very sore calf muscle for the best part of six weeks. The Manchester 10k was really difficult and so I’m determined to do some more varied training to try and avoid injury. Well, it’s my plan. Let’s see how it goes. It was difficult, but I feel like I got two exercise sessions in yesterday.

Today, however, my calf muscles were out to get their revenge. Probably due to the hill walking, and the lunges and the squats. I set out to follow the parkrun route at Edge Hill and could only manage 2k before I had to stop because of the absolute tiredness and soreness in my legs. Nothing like the pain when they were injured, just unable to lift them. Hey ho. Will try again tomorrow. At the moment it’s all about getting back into a routine and so I’m not going to beat myself up after a bad run.

I’ve not yet worked out a schedule, which I’ll do sometime soon. The January schedule seemed to work fine, but once I’ve got something, I’ll post it here.