Training - Day 80

It's been 80 days but today is my first bitter taste of defeat. Today was meant to be a quicker 7 mile run and because of other commitments I had to do it at lunchtime. It was a cold sunny day but I still felt pretty confident as I waited for my GPS to get to the starting point. Confident that is, until I started running. I instantly had a pain in my right thigh and both legs just felt dead. Breathing was tricky too because of the cold. I mis-timed the run as Poole Bridge was still up so I ran through whitecliff and up to Evening Hill. At 3.5 miles I turned round to come back. At 4 miles I started to get a pain in my knee and for the next 3/4 of a mile I churned over in my mind whether I was doing more bad than good - I can't afford to get injured at this late stage. So I stopped and walked back to work. Feeling low, I bumped into a friend who remarked that I looked a c*ck in my lycra trousers (or word to that affect) and for some reason that picked me up a bit. I've 2 rest days now before a 10 mile run on Saturday - lots of stretching and I'll be back on form, I'm sure!!!