It's been a long time.
My last post was back in 2015 and my last run was a year earlier.
There was a time when I ran and posted constantly - and enjoyed many fun runs, marathons, park runs and street races, but in 2014 I sustained a bad knee injury that put me off the track and road for a long time.
In truth, I thought I wouldn't run again. My knee was so sore that I could hardly sleep without discomfort - driving was a pain. Occasionally I would trot a bit just to see if, by miracle, the knee came back of it's own accord, but the pain would emerge after 100 metres.
I went to see a knee specialist who told me I had two options - 1) key-hole surgery 2) more extensive surgery. Neither, he said, would guarantee any success - and running was definitely out of the equation.
And then - by total chance, I went to see a 'healer'. This man, John Behan, was reportedly a 'seventh-son-of-a-seventh son'! He had the 'healing power'.
I went with scepticism, but whatever the man did had me up and running within an hour....I KID YOU NOT!
Having said that - this was about a year ago - and I still didn't push on. But slowly, I returned to walking and then, hey presto, today I took the plunge and ran for 20 minutes.
It's a start - and I'm excited about it.
