I've all but seen the back of the virus and now looking forward to kicking off the training again. As suspected, you come out of something like this feeling weakened and disappointed to have interrupted an otherwise promising training schedule. But I'm not disheartened.
The forced rest has allowed the shin splints to repair themselves and, despite slight cardio-vascular fatigue, physically, I'm feeling solid and niggle free. Mentally, having already got a decent 16 miler under my belt, and with 4.5 weeks of training left before tapering, I'm confident of achieving my goal of completing a near marathon pace 22 mile run in training.
I'm tempted to hold off one more day before starting again, just to be sure I'm clear, but I'll see how I feel this evening and perhaps I'll be able to take on a gentle 3-4k.
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