Willpower run

OK, so I haven't been doing my stretches. So halfway through my long run, back came the pain in the butt. Here's a funny thing though; it disappeared on the second half. Sometimes when I get an ache, I remember my training with Dr Nicholas Romanov of the Pose Method. Dr R is kind of uncompromising when it comes to injuries; whenever I've complained to him of something being not quite right, he's always thrown it right back at me: if I was running using correct form, I wouldn't get injured. I know he's right, but it can really be unhelpful to hear it, sometimes :)

Why this is relevant is that, resigned to the fact I would be repeating the same long trail run I ALWAYS do at the end of the week, I'd come up with a cunning plan. Instead of starting from home, trending downhill for 45 minutes then slogging back uphill, I drove out to the Res and started from there, running towards home (uphill) to start. The downhill second half was so much kinder on my energy that I was able to extend the run from 10 to 11 miles with no extra effort. You're wondering about my butt, I know you are. Yes, well you see the pain disappeared on the downhill bit. So Romanov scores again. The tightness is due to poor form running uphill.

This reverse course is also going down as Willpower run. It's hot, I'm tired, I've done six miles uphill to the "turn"...which is an easy ten minutes from home, a cup of tea, the sofa and, with any luck, an episode of CSI I haven't seen yet. But no, I've got another 45 minutes to do and anyway, even I was going to bottle out, the front door keys are in the car, which of course is 45 minutes back the other`way. Wow, that was hard.