Thu 03 May 07, a morning coaching session

Well my toe is very sore and I'm not really sure how I will run this morning, I'm limping whilst walking... I'm meeting Clare on the Tan this morning for her session as she has other commitments in the evening and so we agree to meet at 6:30am, which would normally be great for me, an easy session in the morning and then back it up with some 1k reps in the evening at my 10k pace. The toe is swollen and there is some visible bruising.

I arrived at the Barracks about 6:20, upto work and drop my gear off, then trot over to the Tan, ow ow ow. Clare arrives and sees me start running and starts laughing, "I can't run with you if you're going to run like that!", a slight limp but as we warmed up it improved, but running down even the slightest incline placed more pressure than was comfortable.

After a four minute jog we started off with some dynamic stretching, some drills and then some glute strengthen exercises followed by some 1/2 lunges, then we jogged over to the pillars. Today's session was 6x250m with 1 min walking recovery, the first rep was a tad slower than I wanted but the remaining were very good. Happily I was able to runthese reps at Clare's pace with little discomfort.

Afterwards I noticed that my toe was more swollen so i decided to let Burkie know that I would rest tonight. Tonight, after 8pm, my toe is more swollen and a lot redder than this morning.