Six Weeks to Go—Pain Hits: What Now?
This is the conversation I have most often in the run-up to the Great North Run. Somebody has trained sensibly for two months. Something has started niggling. The race is close enough that stopping feels unthinkable, and near enough that carrying on feels reckless. They’ve usually been ignoring it for a fortnight already, hoping it would sort itself out. And underneath it all is a question they’re slightly afraid to ask out loud: am I still going to be able to run it? Let’s work through it properly, because the answer depends on things that can actually be established.
