Moving on up ...

Firedance wrote: »

well done on the parkrun M, great going! well paced. The best of luck for next weekend, you've really done the work so I hope it goes well and that above all you enjoy it :-)

Thanks FD, and hope it's not too much of a comedown to be back to maritime training conditions. Sounds like you had a great trip.

Murph_D wrote: »

Yeah well done, HR. Knew you had a PB but didn't realise it was such an emphatic one. Good luck at the weekend.

Thanks Murph!

annapr wrote: »

All quiet now, M... how are you feeling about the weekend?

Emmmm.... feeling *hopeful* ....

On a super-taper right now because the rib pain from last week has been worse since Monday (I thought it was maybe a slightly-twisted rib muscle from my Thursday run). Headed to the GP today and there is a slight possibility that I have slightly-fractured a rib, and also a slight possibility it could be connected to the cough stuff I had all this spring. X-ray done this afternoon.

On the positive side it is the most satisfying GP visit I ever had in the NHS. Turns out she started running the past year through C25k ..so instead of getting kicked out of my urgent-appt with antibiotics, instead the meeting ended with a long chat about parkrun, the Edinburgh 10k last month, jogscotland and hills .... I was the one moving towards the door at the end . Overall was listened to, and had my suspicions and symptoms taken into account :eek:. Have never been seen by this GP before so not sure the better treatment was influenced by the running but it was nice.

I have not been banned from doing the 7hills. And the X-ray results probably won't be back by then. If it's no worse I'll go ahead and do it (she said to take a couple of ibuprofen that morning). Would say it's 90%.

Don't need any consolation or sympathetic messages because it's pretty minor compared to other things in life, and anyway I've got very philosophical about injury/health stuff this past year. If I can do it great, if not I've had some good recces (and a parkrun PB) . So no worries.

Thanks guys, might turn out to be nothing .
Will be making sure to ask for this Doc for any future appointments ...

Thursday, 18th June: 5miles @9:45 avg pace
First run of the week, done on the flat, taking it easy. Ribs sore, even from the mild twisting/impact of easy running .

Verdict now is that I'm a no for Sunday unless the ribs improve. Don't want to make it worse & if it was still like this I wouldn't be able to 'race' it anyway, I would only be getting round. Picking up the pace will only make the pain worse, and the scrambles en-route will probably be hard on the ribs.

I had taken ibuprofen (just the vanilla option, not the 'plus') 2-3 hours before doing out this evening but it's not as effective as I'd hoped.

I can have some hope (if it's not a fracture) because I did have similar pain to this about a year+ ago, and that died away after a number of days. But we'll see. I'll decide for sure on Saturday evening.