Ugly but still running

Thank goodness for Prednisolone – 40mg a day of this little puppy has stopped the spread of the purple peril that has slowly consumed my body. Yes those really are my shins on the left and the rest doesn’t get much better. The downside is that my hopes of being part of Team GB at London 2012 are sadly at an end – the aforementioned steroid is on the WADA (World Anti-doping Agency) banned substance list. For your guide it was Diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug that caused the problem – not on the banned list – it bloody well should be!!

Feeling a whole lot better and certainly a whole lot less itchy – thanks for all your concerned tweets and blog comments – ok I admit I sent them to myself as no-one else seemed to care :-( . I may even make a run today but worried about scaring off the other plodders when they see the Purple Precious one here flaking his way towards them.

So the events of the last few days have really made me consider whether it's worth it or not – seriously this running bug seems to have had a lot of downsides and caused me to ingest and inject various types of medical crap which I had never even heard of before. And again my mammy says “it’s just not for you, son” - maybe she’s right but again I see all these running warriors on twitter and runners world and I haven’t even started yet – really – I haven’t done a marathon yet and I know my mind is ready for more than that – much more – I could climb more mountains instead I guess – I glanced at Africa from the Empress of the Serengeti (thanks Toto) in December. Then again I love the solitude of running but went out of my tiny in the lunar emptiness on the way up Kili.

Bugger it – I am going to run, no matter how neurotic it makes me and how many problems it gives me – I figure the new hip is due within a decade so better wear this one out properly first and maybe be a little more circumspect on what I put into my body. It used to be the wine and kebabs that worried me - now it's the drugs - they never did work you know!

So if you are squeamish - avoid Hyde Park at around 7pm tonight - lolloping speckled scaly purple mess getting back on the endorphin paved perimeter route.

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