Considering signing up for a couple of races. A 22k kinda brutual trail run in may with 7 hours to complete and the sydney marathon in September.

I’m bouncing back from injury pretty well, up to about 20 km per week with only slight tibialis posterior pain occasionally.

I think those races are far enough away I’d have plenty of time to train gently. Feeling nervous though, I’m a pretty solitary person and a race has a lot of hubhub.

Plus proper training puts a lot of time constraints on you, I’d be looking at my 4x a week gym and then what 5 days running also. I’m worried committing to a race will rob running of the joy.

Otoh I’d like to see what I can do, and I’d love to run a proper ultra before oestoarthritis takes that off the table and if that’s the goal I have to start pushing myself sooner rather than later.

Giving out handfuls of pennies for thoughts