Positive thinking ...

I’ve recovered from my bad mood which I was in because I managed to injure my back last weekend and now I have to take a rest from running (and working!). My doctor gave me some nice pills and told me to have an active rest, which means walking, stretching and swimming if I can manage that. She also said that some careful strength training is OK, as long as I don’t use heavy weights. Just be careful but active was her advice. So, that is what I’m doing. I’ve been going on short walks around my house and have been stretching, but it is still very painful so I’m taking it very slowly. And I’m trying to look at the bright side, now at least I’m determined to keep up with my strength training, focusing on the core muscles. I’ve been too lazy lately and I guess this was a good wake-up call in that regards. No use crying about spilled milk, as they say, so I will just use this experience as a good learning curve and will move forward from that. Hopefully, within a week or two I can be back on track with my training and things will be OK. I have summer holidays from Saturday so I have plenty of time to rest between workouts. Always look at the bright side of life, people.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

June was an amazing month. Out of 30 days, I ran/walked on 15 and rested on the other 15. 50% is not to shabby! That’s pretty awesome, actually. I did over 100K in that month. Can you imagine that? I am so proud of myself, what a fantastic achievement. In total, I’m up to 461,5K this year. Running and walking. That is pretty cool. 

On my photos above, pink is running. Orange is walking. Green is strength (and you can see how lazy I’ve been!). Blue is rest days. A lot of blue in March and April as I was fighting with my knee.  July will probably be very orange and blue but I will manage to put enough pink in there to keep me on track for my half-marathon in August. There simply is no choice! Can’t wait to fill out the next 6 months. This method of keeping track of my training is working very well for me. It is such a motivation to fill in the days and I’m such a visual person so this makes total sense to me.

Well, back to licking my wound. Have a great month, I just love July and hope you do too.