The Blister Gash Dash!

I could not believe my luck this weekend. We were out gardening and I was raking the grass and leaves up when the rake slipped out of my hands and ran down my leg – in doing so it grazed a line down my right shin which bled for ages. It doesn’t look like much but all you have to do is snag it and it starts to bleed again.

As if this wasn’t enough I felt uncomfortable in my work shoes today only to find I had a blister. Not sure it’s the boots as they are really comfy and have been no problem to date – I believe it’s the crap M&S socks that were to blame.

I didn’t let either of the above trouble me and to be honest I needn’t have worried as neither really caused me any problems. My Bridgedale socks do a fantastic job of keeping my feet padded and protected and coupled with my brilliant Asics GT-2170’s I really do believe my feet are in better protection than on my usual day-to-day.

I managed a good solid 30 block in the middle of my run and felt comfortable out on the road with iSmoothRun again. Thankfully I have sorted out the personal kinks in the app and it proved to do a great job at keeping me on pace, informed but not intrusive.

The run seemed to go rather quickly and each 5 minute announcement seemed to come and go really quickly. I amended my route tonight so as to break up the monotony and it seemed to help.

Next stage is to start building up the blocks so I am running longer and longer.

After two iSmoothRun routes I am happy that I don’t need to rely on a coach to tell me what to do – I have simply changed my mindset to that I convince, push and encourage myself to reach the next km, 5 mins or to visualise an end point in the route and use that as a goal – then change when near.

This all seems to be working and I am really pleased with my progress so far.

I am really happy with the run tonight especially as I went out like a light on the train home. Why do Bank Holidays make you so tired?

My fastest song this evening was I Like it There by Prince 🙂