Owie!

With all the running and working I've been doing recently I'd been having a few aches and pains. The usual back and neck pain from sitting at a desk working on a laptop all day and some knee aches from running. Nothing was so bad that I couldn't go about my normal business but I knew I'd feel better without them so I had my first massage in over a year yesterday.

Pretty sure I made some quite interesting faces!

I don't want the kind of massage where someone rubs you and you fall asleep - why pay all that money to nap for an hour, I can do that at home for free. I want them to work all those muscles till they finally relax! This was probably the best massage I've had. Today my upper and lower back are the good kind of sore but I still feel better than before the massage. Especially in the neck, around the shoulder blades and my knee. Muscles hurt that I didn't even know I had while they were being worked. I even got lots of tips on how to stop getting so tense and to relieve the knee pain. There was some relaxing at the end but the deep tissue pain was still lingering but I did my best to enjoy a few moments of nothingness.

Must go back soon. Definitely after the half marathon! I hope I'll feel better running tonight now.