Sanity Clause 2024- 30 mins running each day of December

Thank you Marty, I shall summon your injured spirit for company those days my own is flagging. Hope you get over your injury soon.

Three days in and every muscle is as tight as a really f***ing tight knot. To be expected after a six month running absence, but running always felt like a type of penance so I will persevere. I'm having to keep the pace slow, and focus on good posture (and keep it flat and on soft trail) in order to stave of injury- 100kg is fine in the sea but not so good impacting through knees and joints. I've missed running, and its joyful to be able to do so again.

Name| Cumulative distance| date finished

Kurt Godel| 15.15km |

Name| Cumulative distance| date finished

Kurt Godel| 19.58km |

When I totalled up this weeks kilometerage the number declared I had just doubled my 2024 running accumulation, which shouts failure while whispering success. Any previous moderate career in Triathlon has been well and truly forgotten; bike sold, wetsuit packed away, and the sea and pool embraced. Still, you can't beat the slow comeback trail, especially when that trail is sodden with damp leaves and damper muck underneath. A very slow plod today in heavy rain, to remind the spirit there's a bit of life to be squeezed out yet.

Name| Cumulative distance| date finished

Kurt Godel| 133km | 27/12/24

Pain has been growing over the past couple of weeks- first the knees, then the back, and now I'm walking funny owing to a muscle problem in one of my glutes. I'm tempted to take a pain killer to make it through the next 4 days but will be sensible and pull the plug; thus ends an 8 year streak.

To be honest I'd no business getting even this far- weighing around 102kg at the start, and not having run more than a couple of times before Dec; there were always impact and stress injuries waiting to occur. Still, it's been fun getting out on a few hills again, the routine was useful in curbing the worst Christmas excesses, and I dropped 6kg which is a bonus. Back to a pool focus for the next few months (LC Champs are in early March and I'd like to swim 1:30 pace for the 1,500), and I might see about signing up for a tri or two if I can get the weight under control.

Best of luck to everyone hitting their goals in 2025.