First 10k since my 'summer of injury'!🙂

[Sandraj39]

..and how sweet it felt to be out there on my favourite route today!🏃🏽‍♀️ Although this was far from a PB timewise (!) today was all about the distance and just enjoying the trail.😀 Some of the route I had not run for months and it was a little bit like seeing an old friend; trudging across a hilly field and ambling up a path still overgrown with nettles and brambles (that took a while to get through!) Muddy tracks in shady places and leaves coming down in the gentle breeze 🍂🍁🍂 - this is what I love about running and these long, 'lonely' runs are what I have missed. After sciatica left me with nerve damage in my leg, I am at last running without feeling weaker in one leg and have moved on from those 'compensatory' niggles. I just felt good and happy and so very, very grateful to be out there! Happy running everyone!😀🏃🏽‍♀️

[Millsie-J]

You have done brilliantly Sandra, great return to form at last 🏃🏽‍♀️👍🏼

[Sandraj39 Graduate10 in reply to Millsie-J]

It has really tested my patience at times 😫🙁 and has been hard work...but worth it now. Thanks🙂

[Hidden]

Great job, lovely to see you back to the long route; take it steady now and enjoy the sweet, sweet, feeling of success

[Sandraj39 Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

🙂 Thank you Helen.

[IannodaTruffe Graduate10]

You can't beat a good old 10k for lifting the spirits.

I am still building back up and it is still a few weeks off, but everything is looking good.

Well done Sandra, it is almost worth getting injured for (not).

[Sandraj39 Graduate10 in reply to IannodaTruffe]

...not! But yes, hard work always pays off.🙂

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate10]

Great news Sandra😊

Back on your trails. x

[Sandraj39 Graduate10 in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

Thanks Jan - happy me🙂

[Anniemurph Graduate10]

Lovely! So glad you're back out there, with a great 10k to celebrate

[Irishprincess Graduate10]

I'm really pleased to read this Sandra. You've had a hard summer but you're now back where you belong 🏃🏃🏃

Enjoy the winter 🙂

[skysue16 Graduate10]

Yay - brilliant, good news that you had a lovely run back out on the trails 😀

[skysue16 Graduate10]

Sorry, only just found this post! So glad to hear that you are much better and back on the trails. I love being out in the woods in Autumn, the colours are lovely and I like the noise of the crunching leaves as I plod along 😊