Catch-up Time!

I thought it might be high time to update this little blog of mine - it's easily been over a month since I last posted - oops! So, back then I was talking about getting into the pool running and I had just bought a flotation device thingy - well unsurprisingly the pool running didn't last very long. I think I went 3 times one week, 2 the next and gave the whole thng up not long after that! I guess the pool and I just weren't destined to be such good friends afterall!

So, in the absence of pool running, I have found a new love - bike riding! After finally getting the all clear from the sports doc to take up riding again, I have found that I really love it! I had always been a keen bike rider, so it wasn't so hard to 'get back on the bike' as it were. I have now decided to ride into work - it's just over 10kms each way, so easily do-able! I had thought about doing it last year, but I always thought it was too far. I looked up the route on G-maps and worked out the best way to ride - it's really good as it's mainly all bike paths that run along the train lines. It's also mostly up hill on the way to work and mostly downhill on the way home - I can tell you that a couple of times I have been seriously unmotivated at 4.30pm to ride home, but once I get going I'm fine!

As for the shins.....welll.......I'm still undecided! I have had two massage treatments - after the first one I felt really good (ok, so it hurt like hell if I'm being honest, but it felt better a few days later!). Since the second one I have been getting pain again. I had another appointment for tomorrow booked, but I think I am going to cancel it. I have been riding and I have been doing some walking and the pain does feel like it's changing - I don't know how to describe it - before I could feel it with every step, now I only feel a light throb at night sometimes. Who the hell knows! I'm still not running and I won't until we get to the UK - I was checking out some UK based running group sites today and found a couple I would like to join. I guess I still want to prove to myself that I can become a runner. I had a message posted on my Facebook account yesterday from an old friend I haven't seen since high school - she said she was very surprised that I was now running! It made me feel really good to think how far I have come, but I also know I have a long way to go!

Til next month LOL