Injury Woes :(

Bidding our farewells to Los Angeles (at least for four days anyway) today we were travelling about 80 miles south to a small town called Oceanside. I say 80 miles, but whether or not it was further or much closer I don’t know, in fact does anyone know where Los Angeles stops and other towns and cities start? It seemed as though we had only shortly got out of a built up area and then we had arrived at our next destination.

Oceanside is a small coastal town only forty miles north of San Diego. Despite it being a pretty little town with a busy beach, our primary reason for stopping here was to enable us to watch the Carlsbad 5km road race tomorrow - which is boasted to be the fastest 5km race in the world and attracts a high quality elite field. Oceanside is staggering distance from Carlsbad so it seemed a sensible choice.


An obliging pelican sitting on the pier overlooking Oceanside

We also bring some bad news today (and it isn’t that we are home in just two and a half weeks, although that is, granted, a pretty scary thought). Due to a niggling foot injury, coach Chris and myself have made the decision to pull out of the race next Friday, the Mt Sac Relays, and the race which I was most looking forward to. It’s gutting, but we’re hopeful the injury is not serious and that a few days of rest should take care of it. It also means that my target of reaching 2000 miles run in the duration of the trip is in serious jeopardy so fingers crossed I’ll be back on the training in the next few days…. In the meantime, it’s spectating for me and a few days of feeling like a blob!

Andrea