Hey look a horse! Perhaps I will get back on it....

Well, today marked my return to running. I headed out for a very, very casual 5km run around the "5km Loop", and felt... alright while doing it.

It has been hard lately to fit runs in, with placement being so very busy, I really felt that I needed a total break from alot of things, running included. It was also made much harder once I started to have some niggles arising especially from the Arrowsmith run, but also from hockey, which has always been pretty tough on my hips. Is my injury gone? Probably not. Physio would certainly agree with that statement! Is it at a managable level? Yes. So, from that perspective, it is going well. It will be more of a case of managing it in the long term.

So, what does that mean for this plan? Well, I am now going to have to get back on track. I was trying to average about 300km per month- meaning I would finish sometime in October (best laid plans); that is still very much feasible. I had such a good first month, and my second was pretty damn good too, meaning I am still pretty much on track to keep up that average.

I also want to run a marathon, sub 3 hours. So, with that in mind, I will need to tailor what I am doing with my running, doing 2 longer runs (25 km) per week, coupled with more smaller runs.

But then again, part of me really would like to get back into focusing on hockey. I do enjoy playing, and as ever there is the chance for higher honours, but I am apprehensive, for the simple reason that I am not confident I will enjoy playing at that higher level. This is a far from definite statement; I don't think I have been playing well enough to warrant selection of late, but maybe with a month or so of hockey specific focus, I could be playing well enough. Which would still leave me plenty of time to finish my running.....

In short, I don't know.

CP