This week the recovery has been very depressing, emotional and frustrating. I am making progress and that is great but it’s very slow and frustrating and annoying. Today I was out for the second time without the crutches. Yesterday I went to the super market without crutches (and bought hair pins!) and today went first for a walk and then to town. The walk was quite amazing as the day was really beautiful and sunny and not cold at all. So it was great to be out in the sun! But I had to walk very carefully to make sure I don’t slip and fall. Also the nerves in the knee don’t function very well yet so I felt I had this strange leg attached to me which didn’t obey the commands of my brain. A very weird feeling. I walked 3.5 kilometres which took 1 hour 10 minutes…!

In town I bumped into Jaana & Jaap Klevering. What a surprise! It was great to see them and have a coffee. I wanted to buy ‘What I talk about when I talk about running’ book by Haruki Marakami but of course I didn’t find it here. At the moment I feel so envious of people who can just go out and run! They don’t know how lucky they are.

Johanna