So I left you as I came to the end of my Nike Training Club plan, and boy did it end in spectacular fashion.

My last workout entailed a 30 minute run at a fast pace. Now before Christmas I had be testing new run, walk ratios. You see ever since I started running 6 years ago, I have been following the Galloway method.

Jeff Galloway is a former US Olympic 10,000m runner, who never really retired and just kept on running. Over the years he has become an author and trainer, and developed his own running method, which entails running for set period of time then taking a walking break, again for a set amount of time. I have completed 6 half marathons and a full marathon using this method.

So as I said I had upped my game before Christmas but was sick just before the Holiday period, plus the over indulgence of Christmas I had taking a step back which I knew.

This final run called for me to step it up a little, so I though right I won’t go as hard as I was before Christmas but I should have some more in the tank now than I did when I started the training plan 5 weeks prior, little did I know it wouldn’t be what I had in the tank that would cause me problems but what I had in my chest that would be the issue.

I had a little cold but thought nothing of it when I started out. It was cold out, in the minus figures and snowing. Not long in to the run I was struggling with a stitch which is something that doesn’t come about very often for me these days, but I battled though the snow and kept going. At stages I wanted to change my run walk ratio but I keep on going.

It was only once I got home that I knew I really wasn’t right. I just couldn’t catch my breath and felt quite sick. Sadly I had a lovely chest infection brewing that I didn’t know much about until the cold air and the effort of running got to it.

So I have been nursing it for the last 5 days and it seems to finally be breaking.

I am hoping I will be better in time for the launch of Centr, so I can get straight into it. I am really looking forward to having someone lay out for me what I need to be doing to really start to push my body to my targets for 2019. The main thing for me is getting a better structured diet, as with being poorly and not being on a plan my resolve with food has wavered in the last week or so, so to have some one tell me to eat this, eat that, will be great for me as it’s where I really struggle.

I did in fact buy a smoothie maker a week or so ago, so I am sure that is going to come in handy once I get into it.