Training Log Archive: philm64

SOC November classic, Burley (the village not the elite urban orienteer), walking with stick, 2 hours including the painfully long road walk to & from start/finish.

Clive 46, Charlie 49, for 8.3km

WHAT WOULD HAVE I DONE?

I say perfect run: 48:30; good run, 51:00, average run 54.00.

COmments? please amuse me in my time of unhappiness (the leg; nothing else - great w/e, really fab)

C • You'd have done 45:59 I rec... 3

See O event Note writeup.

Support Sian at LittleStoke parkrun (she did a pb but only 23:30 - hmm). HObbling on walking stick.

travel to Newbury - RWC final in pub; pictures with the lads; curryhouse ; pub - total 4 pints - travellodge (managed to not be ill unlike certain CapMen I could mention!)

Physio - James ross as usual .My go-to man!

Ligament tear, grade 1 only, cruciate & cartilage all fine, thankfully; not *too* bad, but he strapped it up for support - which will stay on til sunday eve - and said do as much as you can, out for "2-3 weeks". In 2 weeks Ill be in Mallorca, so I will rest up til then & do some gentle walking there.

Wonder about climbing (easy) & cycling (always easy, as I'm shit at it), maybe starting early / mid next week?

So this is my yearly rest, then, well if I had a job I'd probably have had some forced rests due to lurgies caught of sick fuckers in the office anyway, so , I'll take it (no choice) ....

Was the OMM worth it?

Yeah. (just) (ii'll remember it long after lots of other race victories / successes have died down in my memory, eg. winning NGOC Cleeve hill Blue isn't exactly earth shattering, is it? No).

See no 6:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/remeepatel/if-motivational...

Thigh stiffness subsiding massively; feel almost fine again. Apart from eating like a horse.

Knee still bad - walked with stick / walking pole to local shops.

Feels like it's torn at tendon insertion point. This has happened before. It could be not too bad as that took 3-6 weeks, and once healed, it was good to go (climbing injury to knee - yes really).

Feel quite positive tho clearly I won't be running in the next week or 2 or 3.

More RICE

Spent most of day in the fallout from the BBC radio Bristol's coverage of the outrageous artcle in the Telegraph today. I was on live radio - not *quite* a first, but.....

C • Daily Telegraph 3

Saw GP.

tendon or ligament tear.

Probably looking at 4-8 weeks.

CAnt' walk down windmill hill without a walking stick......

Made physio appointment

RICE.

Drove back from Nottingham. I can drive, but I can't walk down stairs.

Knackered.

the OMM has broken me!

... but it didn't defeat me this time as in 1981.