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Recovery? Don’t talk to me about cross training!

April 25th, 2013 | 6 Comments

I have been going through what I think are fairly normal MdS withdrawal symptoms. Getting back from an event which is in such stark contrast to most others, and far removed from anything most of us would experience in ‘real-life’ is bound the have such an impact. Perhaps less so on those brave individuals in the armed forces, or perhaps civilian firemen, police, etc., who frequently put their lives on the line and who have a familiarity … Read entire article »

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Sign Off

February 25th, 2013 | 2 Comments

Almost two years to the day since the operation to fix my broken femur, I paid a checkup visit to the Physio earlier. I hadn’t seen Stuart at Allen Physiotherapy in Guildford since before we went skiing last year; he is a skier and I am a snowboarder, so we had a little banter about that! However, this visit had been planned for some months, mainly as a checkpoint, with so long in between appointments due … Read entire article »

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Tentative Steps

July 6th, 2012 | Comments Off

Training this week has not gone too badly. After my visit to the physio I have taken my first few tentative steps back outside with my trainers on. I say tentative because my foot still feels as though it has something amiss; some sort of stiffness in the upper-mid foot, so I have been taking it fairly gingerly. In fact, when I thing about it that could be why I am so slow at the moment, as I am probably favouring my right leg to propel me along the trails, while my left is in a guarded holding pattern around the airfield of full performance. On Tuesday I did an easy 6km followed by Thursday’s 9km and then did some physio on Friday, with some gym running to warmup and cool down. … Read entire article »

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Physio update – visit 3,457

July 2nd, 2012 | Comments Off

Monday’s seems to be turning into my Pilates and physio day. Yet again today I had a lunchtime of stretching and core work in the gym. After only a few sessions it seems to be getting a bit easier which is great, but that doesn’t really help my legs, my ankle or my foot! Not in the way that I need it at the moment anyway. So, off to the physio it was this evening for another … Read entire article »

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Time for a Rest

May 29th, 2012 | 4 Comments

After yesterday’s early morning disaster, and the all clear from the physio, I was keen to get out this morning for a run with the sunrise and finish my week of training on tired legs! Perhaps I should have taken that as a warning sign that enough was enough. After checking out the curtains at 4:30am I found the morning was too beautiful to pass up the opportunity though, so wound my way quietly down the stairs … Read entire article »

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Pilates and Physio

May 28th, 2012 | 2 Comments

My legs were shot after yesterday’s run. My quads had spent a couple of hours immediately after the run threatening to cramp up and I spent the rest of the day trying to keep mobile to ward off the sensation. A 4:30am alarm call was therefore not a welcome sound so, of course, the first and subsequent alarms were all switched off in rapid succession. So much for dedication this morning! Lunchtime was a different matter and because I have a busy week, may well be the only gym session I get in this week. So it was off the Pilates again for me, and although I still felt like a bit of a beginner, I was more settled than last week’s initial shock to the system. After an afternoon of work, I had … Read entire article »

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Holiday and Physio

April 2nd, 2012 | Comments Off

The children had their first day of Easter holiday today. I was back to work and so, predictably, the boys were up at 6:15am – there must be an undiscovered part of the human genome that ensures that when children have to get up they sleep in, and vice versa, since on any school day, when it is essential for them to get up, they struggle out of bed at 7:15am. Today though, the Skylanders on … Read entire article »

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Back on the Trains

March 19th, 2012 | 2 Comments

Early start this morning as I was back to work, so had to do all the chores first – children’s sandwiches, washing, breakfast, clothes, ready and then out the door to the train. Liz was feeling marginally better today, and was nervous about me going to work and being alone. Luke was not feeling much better so we’d decided to keep him at home again (he had a relapse after all the activity of the party … Read entire article »

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Physio Update

February 20th, 2012 | Comments Off

Well, after three months I was back at the Physio today. Stuart gave me the usual set of tests and manipulation to ascertain the extent of my recovery and the good news is that my glutes are now pretty much equal on both sides, which is fantastic news, especially since Mr Elliot was sceptical as to whether the strength to my left glute would ever regain it’s strength. We went down into what he refers to as … Read entire article »

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Long two

January 9th, 2012 | Comments Off

Most distance running schedules, whether they be for 10k, half marathon or marathon, will include a day a week where there is a long run, the theory being that you need to get you body familiar with running 80% of the sort of distance you have as your target. My preferred running schedule generally involves a couple of days of long runs, for the same reason, but split over two days as ultra distances are difficult … Read entire article »

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