More things that stop you training

What a week and what a discovery of things that can stop you training. I give you exhibit 1. This little pink squishy thing is bured deep inside your body attached to your liver. It's a gallbladder and the little things shown inside it are gallstones. When one of these little stones decides to go on holiday down the 'bile duct', it goes out with a song and a dance. One that leaves you, its owner, flat on your back in utter unimaginable pain. So this is exactly what happened to Sarah on Monday. But in good old England we have a NHS system and our thought was. Well, Sarahs in A&E, they will take her to the operating theatre and remove the thing. Well slap me wth a cold cod, thats not what the NHS does. The NHS might deal with you immediately if your in a car crash, but not for a gallbladder. No, A&E 'manage' your pain, then tell you to goto the GP, join the waiting list that will probably take 20 weeks. Or you can go private and it will be done on Monday. Welcome to the real world and I believe its time for everyone to have private medical insurance, just like in the US, but with the double whammy that you also pay tax that goes to the NHS. What an eye opener this experience has been.

The other thing to stop training is snow. Thursday bought 4 inches of it and Boxhill looks really pretty. The schools all closed, the train system chugged along slowly and the only thing to do was stay at home for the day or suffer 4 hours commuting. So stayed at home.

But to be honest, I have managed to keep to the plan this week, fitting in the shorter runs somehow. The weekend is still to come though and a 24km run needs to be done.

The weekend has passed and I have missed the long run. Thats the second one, but it's still early in the training plan and I am sure I can still get the long runs in, in the coming weeks.

Sarah really is not well. She now appears to have a stone stuck in the bile duct and is desparate to get help tomorrow. I dearly hope the blood tests are OK in the morning and she can get the operation done. Again, this is a total eye opener for me, and the lesson is, if you have a non urgent condition, the NHS will fail you. But lets not turn this into a NHS rant.