And then it went TWANG!

Yep, my leg has gone TWANG! This is not good news - I think it must have been on the morning when I was running in the dark and couldn't see the tree roots. Maybe I stepped awkwardly or over-stretched, but I have definitely pulled something. A quick look on Google (yes, yes, I know one shouldn't self-diagnose, but it's so EASY) seems to reveal that I may have pulled my sartorius muscle. Sounds like it should be a star sign... Anyway, it goes from one's knee to one's pelvis, and I've twanged it. The only cure is rest, so that's an end to training for the time being. I may try and get some physio on it this week as it doesn't seem to be getting any better.

And whatever I did to it I made significantly worse on Thursday by Doing A Good Deed. I was leaving a hotel in Cardiff where I had been working and was heading back to the car in the gale force winds and driving rain when I saw a young woman struggling with an inside out umbrella and a map, clearly trying to figure out where she was. I asked if I could help and she said she needed to find the Welsh Institute of Sport. It was hard to describe how to get to it from where we were, so as I was going in that direction I said I would show her. She set off like the clappers. As she was about 6 foot tall, and at least 5'10" of that was legs, she was FAST! As I tried to keep up my twanged muscle was screeching with each step... I eventually gave up, pointed out the rest of the way and she virtually ran off. Nice girl, training to be a medic, comes from Shropshire, likes Cardiff, was being a volunteer for some fund-raising activity at the Institute that afternoon. I suppose it is a sign of my improving almost running fitness that I could Walk Very Fast and maintain a conversation at the same time, which is encouraging. Just a pity about the leg...

So I've had a thoroughly non-training weekend. The 5k Santa run is now 3 weeks today, and I am still determined to run the whole thing.

Even if slowly.