A strange thing happened to me on Saturday morning. I was coming down the stairs without a care in the world when I suddenly realised that I was coming down the stairs without a care in the world. This was strange because for the last few months sometimes I’ve come down stairs favouring my left leg and sometimes I’ve come down stairs favouring my right leg. Sometimes I’ve said “ouch” on each and every step and sometimes I’ve said “ouch” only on every other step. Always I’ve come down slowly and made a conscious effort not to exacerbate a minor pull or niggle.
I’m not sure if the carefree descent has been happening for some time and I wasn’t aware of it until Saturday or whether Saturday was a breakthrough. I took it as an excellent sign that my legs had recovered from the overuse I’d given them and that tapering actually works. Armed with this carefree movement I then went out and ran a PB at parkrun in my 114th run taking eleven seconds off my previous PB.
I’m back to coming downstairs very slowly saying “ouch” on every other step and favouring my right leg, but hey, that’s marathon training.
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