Since Luton Marathon

Having injured myself quite badly, as it turns out, at Luton, I didn't run at all until just after Christmas when I went for a 7k run with my friend Sunnil. It went well although we both ran well within ourselves. I did another couple of short runs between Christmas and New Year with no reaction at all but on the 5th of January I went for a proposed 10k run with Andrew and Sunnil but within 2 miles my lower hamstring twaeked badly and brought me to an immediate halt. I limped slowly home, extremely dissapointed that another muscle had gone. A different one from before.

I booked an appointment with the physio and she gave me a thorough muscle examination. Her verdict was that I have been getting back to running too quickly each time and so the muscle that is currently damaged is drawing on other muscle groups for support and thus weakening them and so they in turn pop. She gave me a really good deep muscle massage but insisted that I do not run at all for the next 6 weeks. Ouch!

I will of course do as she says and if I need to exercise I'll need to swim or cycle.

I have no marathons planned in the near future so I'll just need to ease my way back to fitness after I get back to training. I'm thinking of running the Glasgow (my home city) half in August and maybe a full marathon in September somewhere. Any suggestions?