Race Day
As you may have guessed, I won’t be running Race to the Stones today with my amazing RTTS100 team. To be honest, I am pretty devastated about it.
I guess I have known for a while that it wasn’t looking good for me. When my knee went in the London Marathon and it took three weeks for me to walk straight again I knew something was up. Ever since then the niggling pain has not gone away and I haven’t been able to run much over 10k, which is no good when you need to run 100k.
I am pretty stubborn and, if it was just me to consider, I would be there today giving it my best shot regardless of a niggling knee. Next weekend, though, is my sisters wedding and I am her maid of honour (or Queen Bridesmaid as I have taken to calling myself). I simply can’t risk having a bad knee on the big day; I need to be able to run around and sort things out so that she can relax and I most definitely cannot be seen limping down the aisle after her. I also have some top moves that the dance floor simply has to see.
Deciding not to run was difficult to come to terms with, but I know it’s the right decision. I am devastated not to be joining my incredible team today on a stormy adventure; they are all incredible women with whom it would have been an honour to run. I feel like a huge let down if I’m honest but I know I would feel even worse if I let my sister down. There’ll be another ultra - there won’t be another wedding. There’s more to life than running and sometimes life has to come first.
I can’t wait to follow the teams progress today - I am so proud of all of them and cannot wait to hear their stories from the race! Run strong team, I am with you in spirit. X
Difficult decision to make but you don’t want to injure yourself further! Plus think of the dance moves!
Soph - you are bloody amazing and a huge inspiration to many of us! Don’t let this get you down as there will be plenty of races in the future to run, but there’s only one of you so better not to ruin your body so you can do any races at all in the future. Totally made the right decision and that just shows how awesome you are because it must have been a super difficult decision to make!