I've been wondering whether or not I should be doing this race, given my foot problem but in the end I decided to (in the words of Nike) just do it!
I set off from home stupidly early, or so I thought, at 5.25 for a 7.15 start but it ended up taking me an hour to get there. The traffic in Horwich was horrendous and by the time I had sat in it for so long I was more sweaty than I was at the end of the race!
The race itself went OK and my foot stayed pain free, although it was throbbing a little between the warm up and the start of the race.
Unfortunately, but as was expected, my time was a bit disappointing at 24 minutes 11 seconds, 50 seconds slower than my PB on this course. Ah well, it was to be expected given my complete lack of any speed work for months and my dodgy foot. Hopefully after tomorrow's MRI scan I'll finally know what's wrong with it and be able to start getting it sorted out. I'm feeling very optimistic that it's going to be something easily fixable. Fingers crossed.
Oh and I couldn't possibly finish this post without saying a MASSIVE well done to Erica who won the ladies race. That girl is on fire!!!
Total distance - 3.1 miles + warm up and cool down
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