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Winter 26 - Week 4 BREAK

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Knowing that I was going to come into winter and have laser eye surgery  left an unknown break in training. I had read that recovery could be anywhere between a few days and 6 weeks for full return to training. I knew what was going to happen so it's left a large unknown gap between heading in to winter and heading out. On Sunday 1st November I flew out to Prague early evening after getting my long run banked. The operation was booked for Wednesday 4th November and return flight Friday 6th. I expected to run Monday, Tuesday and possibly sneak a run in Wednesday morning and then at the very best case scenario resume jogging on the Monday of the following week HOWEVER I had expected that 1 - 2 weeks from the surgery is most likely. Unfortunately I've been dealing with a grumbly knee for the past week and it was pretty painful Monday so I just took the additional 2 days off - so no running since the Sunday long run. As I needed to take time off whatever happens my thought was that...
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Winter 26 - Week 1 & 2 ... & 3

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Monday 12th October 2026 I need to spice this shit up. Get some wisdom in this mofo. Wake up early for golf today, throat is much better. I'll try and run today and just see how the body responds to a little bit of effort. Golf - played with Paul and actually went OK. We mixed and matched 17 holes and I shot 81 for those (39, 42) all on the back 9. 35 points off 16 which is pretty good. Figured out that my par 3s are killing me. I am not hitting GIR, think 1 in the past 3 rounds and that's killing my scoring. I'm hitting 46% of fairways and 1.89 putts per hole. This is 10 handicap golf, my par 4 and par 5 approach play isn't that bad but par 3s are killing me, I need to hit these to get GIR up from 16%. Hit 3 of these from the shorter 4 at 125, 125, 165, 155 yards and forget the 185 and I am on fire. My focus on Thursday is to be very dialled in on the tee at par 3s. Running with illness It's that time of year. I have felt like I'm fighting something off. In Fe...
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Returning from injury

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Or the worlds longest (or maybe shortest) blog! It's been 11 weeks now of on-off running attempting to overcome a calf strain and the finding the underlying issues, and then having a foot strain! Sunday 23rd August 2023 Ran today, finally felt that the foot is easing up a bit. The peronial tendons have been aching, the tendons across the foot have been sore and I have a touch of plantar fasciitis. All on the right foot. The plan for the next couple of days is to stay OFF the rehab work, just run easy and let the foot settle down.  The rehab work is really working but it's annoying my foot. My calf strength and achillies stiffness is improving a lot. My plyometics are very low level but I am getting more and more coordination. I see Ben in a week and I just need to stay on the plan and not go extra curriculum with it. I am finally feeling that there is light at the end of the tunnel BUT I am cautious and I have been here before. The plan this week is to stay easy running until t...
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