After 7 weeks of dropping down from 60-70 to just 20 miles a week due to nasty heel pain it was time to get back into the grind. My heel pain had been solved with Enertor Performance Insoles.. Yippee I can run properly again. It had been 7 weeks since my last proper speed session and the AB Training Group's warm weather training camp in Portugal was going to be the place to start training hard! We arrived in the evening on Saturday 13th May after some of the guys in the group

So it's here, race day! Do I feel ready? No! but I knew it should be a decent training run, I just needed to run hard! I went out a bit too quick at the start, after a mile I realised I was in 3rd female position. After the turnaround point a few miles in, I was quite close to Sarah Hill who was in 2nd position, but as we turned, I knew it was the long stretch to Hove Lagoon with the wind against me. It wasn't pleasant at all, Sarah was getting further and further out of reac