Socially distanced running

The week started with light training with my foot and various niggles causing problems but I had my "medical team" lined up.By Thursday I was a lot better but did a couple of short trail runs, keeping off the tarmac which I'd overdosed on for the last 4 months. 
Saturday was a really special day.  My first run with pals, my coach Genevieve and her husband Colin.  I turned up at Chatelherault early to do a lap before they arrived and they joined me for the second lap.  That was a tough second lap as having reduced my training over the last two weeks has had an impact on my fitness.  Genevieve gave me some tips to improve my running and I did my best to make the changes.  But I was blowing out my backside by the end.  We managed a socially distanced coffee afterwards and it was great.  Almost normal but not quiet, but we'll get there in time.  You can't beat running with friends.  The mistake I made was not to rest afterwards.  I had an afternoon of furniture shopping for our new house which is important, but it came at a cost the next day as I missed my rest.  Oh and that was 15 km, a nice step up as it was day one of three days of running. 
My foot was a 4/10 so it was agreed that I'd run at the wind farm on Sunday as it was better underfoot than tarmac, marginally in my opinion.  The wind farm is a tough gig.  Hilly and exposed.  I decided that instead of an out and back, I'd half the distance and do 2 out and backs in case my foot played up - I didn't want to be too far away from the start if my foot acted up.  It was a game of two halves.  6.7 km out was tough but on the way back I felt better as it ends on a downhill!  I then turned around for a second loop and that's where the wheels came off the trolley.
I went a different route as I couldn't face the hills I'd just been on again.  I ended up stopping, walking and had a number of stones to pick out of my shoes.  Easier said than done when your ham strings are complaining and you're trying not to tweak anything.  In total I managed 24 km and was knackered.  But I got my rest when I got home.
So this morning I headed out early to Chatelherault at 6.30 am for 16.5 km.  No company to distract from any discomfort.  But I had the birds singing which always cheers me up.  It wasn't fast but it was done.  Then I started eating.  McDonalds for breakfast, fish and chips for lunch.  Home for dinner with more fish and pasta - you know when you've trained hard when your appetite goes through the roof!
Having had my first run with friends in over 4 months I'm really looking forward to this becoming the norm.  The Virtual Race Romania starts on Saturday, 250 km in 25 days.  I was intending in doing it in 7 days but we're going to be managing this on a daily basis with reduced mileage just so we can get there.  What ever it takes!