The Narangba Running Group had a run planned last night for Sheepstation Creek Environmental Park, but unfortunately it was cancelled due to the threat of rain, strong winds and squalls. Hubby and I decided we might go out for a run anyway, providing the weather wasn’t dangerous, as in likely to blow trees down on us. We decided to go to Bunyaville State Forest - Roseanne was looking after the kidlets, and that was much closer to her place. The other good thing about that area is that it’s dog friendly, so we packed up two dogs, two kidlets and off we went. It was a really nice night for a run, cool and not too humid, with a shower of rain towards the end. The trails had a few good hills, and it was really precarious going down hills with Guinness, he was full of exuberant enthusiasm and wanted to go down the hills at a speed that would have had me going down face first. As it was, I only fell once, and it wasn’t the dog’s fault, and I didn’t do much damage, just a few little scratches. We did just over 12km, the dogs loved it, and my legs were tired but fine (in spite of Anja’s best efforts - “If you can run for two hours, you can leg press 100kg”, she says!!).

I’ve just come back from the podiatrist, and he says I have metatarsalgia, basically my high arches mean that there’s a lot more force than usual put on my metatarsal heads and they’re getting inflamed, possibly affecting the nerves between them. I’ve got a dome on my orthotics to lift the foot just behind the metatarsal heads and distribute the force a bit more evenly, so hopefully that will do the job. He mentioned that depending on whether or not one or two metatarsal heads are copping more than the others, there’s a risk of a stress fracture, so I’m glad I got it sorted sooner rather than later.

I popped into Mary Ryan Bookshop while in Milton, I love that shop! I found a book for Hubby. Can’t post what it is, because he occasionally reads this blog and it’s meant to be a surprise, but I think he’ll like it. We don’t really do Valentine’s Day, instead having the odd little surprise if something appropriate comes up, but I have planned on making a nice dinner for him tonight, and I couldn’t walk past this book. Nice dinner’s are not my strong point, but we’ll see how it goes.

I’m meeting Anja shortly to do a speed session at the club oval, then tomorrow is a well earned rest day! I’m looking forward to that.

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