Positives and positivity

My last post left me having completed the Great South Run and looking forward to the Reading Half.

I should have known better than assuming that would go to plan. That’s not how the 2020s are meant to work.

Which reminds me, it is funny that our first race cancellation of the decade was due to wind. How we laughed…

Anyway…

Within a week of that last post, the whole family had received positive Covid results (for the second time in my case) and that put paid to all travel plans for November.

I was ok though. The reality is I’ve felt worse after having the booster jab this week than I did from either actual bout with Covid, although that’s not to say I did wrong. Whatever it takes to keep normal life (i.e. running and occasional travel) open is fine for me.

What it has done though is delayed my next half marathon so Reading in November has become Chepstow in January and having a couple more months to prepare has to be a good thing. It will be good to close out a very lengthy training spell, interrupted by injuries and Covid, with a race, before focus switches primarily to walking over the spring. It will hopefully be a good race but I’ll take whatever I’m given on the day now I think.

In the meantime, we’re off to the UK anyway. I had holiday to use this year so a few days now in Reading, Bristol and Portsmouth via a parkrun in possibly Bushy Park, possibly somewhere else depending what time the boat gets in that we’re on right now as I write this.

Bit of a run in to Christmas sort of thing really and we’re definitely planning to enjoy it!