Late last night I made a radical decision. I would change my Janathon challenge from ‘getting out to run’ into a ‘not run’ challenge. It’s a much bigger challenge, and will hopefully help me to downgrade my ‘niggle’ back into a ‘twinge’, and hopefully to nothing at all.
I was feeling quite sad as I love love love my running and hate cross training. However with my sensible head on, it might be just what I need to do to enable me to have a wonderful rest of the year for running rather than hobbling and grumbling.
With this in mind, I did NOT need to open an email this morning and read “Jantastic has started. Let’s run! “ Yah boo sucks to them!
Instead I dug one of my trusty DVDs and started to do the 10 minute Abs section. Then in a fit of enthusiasm I also did the never-before-attempted ‘buns’ 10 minutes. Let’s just hope I can sit down tomorrow!
Oooh, I have one of those DVDs somewhere. They actually do hurt!
Yes. Not too bad so far today, but I might do it again tonight and *then* see how little I can move tomorrow!
Definitely the right choice – injury sucks especially when you feel you could have avoided it.