SNOW - AGAIN

I left my scarf in Loughborough by mistake and told Alex that it didn't matter as spring had come to Latvia. So here we are again - it snowed again in Riga last night! Today was my first serious run since I tore my calf and the woods were beautiful, warm and white. Underfoot was seriously slippery as it was powdery wet snow on ice. I nearly went over a couple of times. I think I have jarred my neck in the process. It really hurts now. What we do to be athletes!

BAD LEG

After an amazing ski on saturday in near perfect conditions I have been forced to be idle since then with a bad calf. I am doing al the right things, ice, heat, stretching, but it refuses to heal. My problem is that my calves are quite strong so I cannot get past the muscle strength to stretch them fully. I need to be doing this constantly but when I am injured it becomes really hard to get it right. I shall rest and stretch today and then try running again thursday. If that fails I shall just run and suffer until it sorts itself out. it always does work this way but it does hurt doing it.

Loads of snow and plus 4 so park is completely hard running on ice, water and slush. Oh well!!

NOT RUNNING

Running has taken a back seat to life and work this week. A torn muscle in my calf from the fall I had in ski race last week has not helped (I got cramp 1km from the finish and lost balance) I have kept busy doing squats and some elastics exercises. The good bit is that this has coincided with snow and bad running conditions so If I was going to miss a week this was it. Hopefully I shall be back moving next week. I am now looking forward to a ski tomorrow and then maybe the forest paths and roads will clear and I can start running faster again.