With now only three weeks to marathon day my training schedule, which I had managed to follow religiously, is well and truly out of the window!
Since running the East Hull 20 feeling under the weather I have paid the price of not listening to my body, spending most of the last fortnight laid up in bed with flu!
That will certainly be a lesson to me.
I am not invincible and need to look after myself.
After all – at 45 I am no spring chicken!
A younger person may well have fought the virus more effectively.
Initially I felt that my first illness in six years couldn’t have come at a worse time – but actually it could if I had fallen ill closer to race day with no time to recover.
At least now I am back in training and I comfort myself in the knowledge that I had built in an extra two weeks training with my marathon campaign starting a few weeks earlier than needed – thereby affording me a contingency.
But many of you will appreciate that every day you don’t train you fear you are quickly losing fitness.
Fighting the mental battle is as difficult as fighting the flu bug!
BY Benita Jones
Easter Dash
Driffield’s WoldsWay to Health had many runners in the weekend’s Easter Dash at Sewerby
And they also had the winning ladies team, with Zoe dale finishing first, Alison Crellin second and Katherine Felgate fifth.