Illness stops play

My plan for last weekend was to go swimming on Sunday, but M was unwell. Consequently, we cancelled that plan and went for a long walk instead. M was ill all week and I also had a cold, which changed my plans.

I cycled to work on Monday and Thursday, which was good, but I didn’t manage to fit in any other running or swimming during the week.

On Saturday, Stuart, M, my mum and I all went to parkrun. It was my turn to run with M, so we decided to run with my mum. My mum has been really unwell recently and has not been able to do her usual exercise, so she found the run harder than usual. I was really impressed that her final time was within a couple of minutes of her PB.

Today, we went out for a long walk. It helped me rack up a good number of steps (almost 15 000).

Hopefully, M will have a more successful start at nursery this week and I’ll be able to start my new exercise programme. I’m planning to swim with Liz tomorrow and to run with Sarah later in the week before putting in a couple of hours of training on Friday.

I had a reminder that the London Landmarks Half is now only 5 months away. I’ve not planned how to get there or anything yet, so that might be a task for the next week.

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