The end of last week was the end of my 3rd week of hard training. I had been feeling OK but the accumulated training hit me hard all of a sudden. The day before I had done a 10 miles run on tired legs, followed by a 1.5 mile swim and then 6 hours at the Junior League Summer Style Soiree held in Fluxx nightclub in downtown San Diego. I was “helping” Alan and Ken with the photography, which mostly involved standing around and guarding their equipment, but it felt hard work doing it in heels!
The following morning I was exhausted. My whole body hurt and I had huge bags under my eyes. That lunchtime we did a short photoshoot to give us some tennis images to use on our advertising. I was dressed in tennis clothes with a strappy top and swinging a tennis racquet. I haven’t played tennis in 25 years so it was just as well I only need to pose with the racquet and not hit anything. The shoot went fine but that afternoon my shoulders started itching under my t-shirt. I checked them in the mirror and found I had the most humungous sunburn! By the following morning I didn’t want to put my running bra on it was so sore. I spent memorial day weekend hiding inside wearing any off-the-shoulder clothing I could find and applying aloe-vera several times a day. So much for an uneventful training week. I missed a few runs whilst my skin healed. My first run back during the recovery week was a 6 mile easy run and I was so well rested I felt like I had some rockets strapped to me!
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