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Running Through the Pain to a Parkrun PB



Bedford Parkrun

I took ten days off training after the Bedford 20 in the hopes that my rib injury would heal in that time.....it hasn’t. I think it actually might be a bit worse. Every time I laugh or cough (or cry at this point) it exacerbates it. So what to do now? Drug myself up at every opportunity and continue like nothing has changed! Granted this isn’t the greatest of plans and I will probably be in a world of pain after the marathon but I don’t feel like I have a choice. The marathon was the beginning of this challenge; where it all stemmed from and I feel like if I cant complete this marathon then it will all have been a failure. So yesterday I headed to Bedford for another Parkrun in a bid to convince myself that running 5k will be about the same as running as 42k. So I lined up at 0900hrs ready to start and when I started running I felt pretty good. A bit of pain in the ribs but overall very good. That lasted for about half a mile before I started feeling like I was dragging around lead legs and someone was stabbing me in the ribs. But I pushed on and managed to finish the race in 27:52 which was actually about 1:40 quicker than the last Parkrun I did in January. So its not all bad news and I’m hoping that it wont be as painful doing the marathon as I will be running at a slower pace (I realise I’m kidding myself here as running a marathon with no injuries will be painful). I continue to be stubborn and ignore advice from others and I can assure you that I will cross that finish line next Sunday even if I have to crawl across it! Wish me luck!

Thank you to my sponsors from the past two weeks who have pushed me to 33% of the way to be target. I would love to be nearing 50% by the time I run the marathon. Thank you to:
Viv St Leger Moore, Carol McCartney, Sarah Devenport, Emma Arnett-Davies and Dan Kent.

If you can support me on this journey then please visit my fundraising page on

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/HelenFrancis10


          

This Weeks Sponsors!

KM Complete 83
KM To Go 217

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