Running for ME/CFS no. 49

One of the wider parts of my forest run.

Three weeks tomorrow I’ll be running the Great North Run. A half marathon that’s been going for a long time now. I’ll be one of 57,000 participants and, like most of them, I’ve been training now for a few months.

This week’s programme involved a reduction in distance and time spent running. I suspect this is due to the extra effort required for the eight and half miles I ran last week. Muscles and joints need time to recover, after all. So, Wednesday I...