Pain free Gnome

One of the really nice things about the last week or two has been the feeling of starting to run without hurting, and running without hurting, and not hurting after runs... It's been 8 months since I was able to say that (apart from the striders 10 at homebush - done on bulk nurofen plus and panadeine - I floated around the course), and I'd forgotten how nice it is.

I went for a 5.5k run this morning, doing one minute bursts every time there was a flat-ish stretch (they don't call this The Hills for nothing :-) Took almost 30 minutes to do it which suprised me - it felt faster - but guess I started fairly slowly. The beautiful thing is that I've done about 40k in the last week, and I haven't felt uncomfortable at any stage. All up, this is a pretty good lead up to the half. Hope it continues :-)

sfG