Walkies!

This week I intended to run Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, miss out Saturday and then race on Sunday. It's going to be a very low mileage week as I'm not going to be able to fit in a long run due to racing on Sunday as I don't want to wear myself out the day before. I was planning on getting in at least 30 miles though but it has already started to go wrong.

I did six miles yesterday and intended to go out again tonight, but for some reason my hamstring is playing up. It's only a slight niggle but I don't want to mess myself up before the relays at weekend. I've never done a relay before and so don't want to let the team down.

I decided to go for a nice walk up on the tops with Ruby instead. We set off from home and went straight up towards George's Lane. En route, Ruby tried to kill Dave Jackson as he was flying down a slope towards us but Ruby was on her extension lead and Dave nearly ran between us both and would have gone flying over the lead. Luckily I was able to warn him in time and he managed to swerve us.

We went up to 2 Lads from George's Lane and then out onto the mast road. At the bottom of the mast road we saw Ruby's old owner, Sean, who was really happy to see her and scooped her up in his arms. Ruby seemed really happy to see him too, but not overly happy to see his other dogs who Ruby wasn't the best of friends with, hence her move to our house.

From there we just headed home via Foxholes.

Hopefully we'll be back running tomorrow but I don't envisage getting much mileage in at all this week. Ah well, it's good to have a rest once in a while (...so why does it make me feel so angry with myself?).