Need to catch up with my training plan for the 6-Dec marathon

Have not been actively training for the past 2 weeks. Two weeks ago was busy with mom's funeral and last week was busy on business trip and trying to catch up with backlog.

Decided to go for a 21km run today but finally ended with 17km due to pain at left ankle.

Completed 17km in 1:40:44hr with average speed of 10.1km/hr. Quite happy with today's run after a long break.

Woke up around 6am. Took a glass of coffee and 6 small Dole bananas. Carry along my fluid belt with 3 bottles (100-plus mixed with water). Total was close to 900ml. Started to run at 6:39am.

Wanted to do 21km along the YCK-AMK route (2x 10.5km). At 10km mark, felt pain at left ankle and muscle-ache at both hamstring on the lower legs. Did not want to get injured as Dec is getting close and need time to train. So continue to monitor while running. At 13km mark, the pain at the ankle still there. So decided to do a u-turn at 13.5km mark. Stop at 14km mark to take a GUI energy gel at one of the bus-stop.

After taking the energy gel, suddenly felt a rush of energy to the legs. Was able to run faster and with ease. Looks like the energy gel does work.

Reached home and clocked in a total of 17km in 1:40:55hr. Heart rate mostly at Zone 3 and Zone 4. Hamstring muscle-ache still there but pain at ankle disappeared. So glad, I guess there is no injury.

Will try to clock in t least 40km per week over in Oct. Then start to tapper down in Nov.