Adam in Runderland

Well the year has ended much the same way that it began, slowly. It has been an amazing year with the peak coming in the summer but it has started and finished with illness and injury. January and February were lost due to a knee problem but I recovered from this with four months of good, strong running; half marathons, marathons and ultra marathons in March, April, May and June. My body was pretty knackered after the 35 mile Shires and Spires and 70 mile Round the Isle of Wight so I eased off over the summer to facilitate recovery. I had treatment for shin pain and rested. By September I was desperate to get back on it and the next couple of months I managed to achieve my aim of PB’s in the 5km Parkrun and Half Marathon. By November I was running faster and better than at any time before. Then flu hit and I was out of action for three weeks. The illness is still lingering now and all I have managed since the beginning of November are a few steady 5k distances. I’m be...

This is my first post for some time. I have had man flu. The only thing that has been running is my nose! Although out of bed and back at work my sinuses and chest are still in a bad way but I'm desperate to get out there again. A week or two can be passed off as a rest period but once it stretches beyond this to three or four weeks I can feel my fitness ebbing away. Thankfully I haven't got any events lined up until February but I still miss my weekly Parkrun, the Parklands Jog & Run sessions on a Monday and the opportunity to go for a stress relieving run on my own. One ray of light during this time came when Chris Lamb, who runs the PJR sessions, turned up at my door on Saturday with a trophy in his hand. Apparently I had finished as runner up in the Runner of the Year Award for our group. This was a fantastic surprise and the icing on the cake of a great year for my running. I have wonderful memories of enjoyable races, a drawer full of t-shirts and medals...