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One day I shall make a tremendous re-entry onto the multi-sport scene, the actual sporting bit rather than the mingling sidelines. It will not be in the next few months.

12 months of right leg niggles are truly taking the piss now with this mangled knee business. On once more, the right leg. What to do? Absolutely nothing but suck it up and see what happens. Injury is one of things that come along and smack us in the chops when we least want it, but let's face it there would never be a good tim… Continue

no longer in asia where i can lose 2kgs in sweat on a saturday morning, i am duvet clad in London.

a simple comparison of past/present running conditions follows (not my physical condition as this still has a long way to go)

London
watch out for: pavements (am still tripping over the kerb)
risk: being shot (park where i run is culling deer 8pm-7am at present)
clothing: have to wear lots of clothes, hat and gloves
phsyical: dehydration because i never want to drink cold water when runnin… Continue

I don't know what happens in the real world but I'm sure there must be some kind of arrangement for different groups to use the track at different times? Today on my trip to the national stadium here in Lao PDR, in downtown Vientiane, it was an absolute bun fight for space. What a fantastic state of affairs when there are so many people in this impoverished nation keen to get active.

There was a national football game on the grass, complete with spectators with their plastic chairs on the track… Continue

This is absolutely TOP secret as if the physio finds out he'll kill me... but I have to offload somewhere. For the first time in bloody MONTHS I have managed something akin to a shuffle round the track. A long long way to go, but this is the first break into jog/run since I tore my calf muscle in July. And that was after a duff hamstring/piriformis which benched me end of April.

Steady away. I can't even tell you my pace, as it's absolutely shocking. Minutes per km slower than normal. But what… Continue

Totally stoked that I went to the pool 3 times today as I still can't run or bike. And am not even allowed to do the big 20 mins 'interval' walk today as the physio nearly fried my leg with the ultrasound yesterday.

So dragged my sorry ass to the pool at 6am this morning for a Lao2km. I call it the Lao2km because the actual length of the pool is a mystery. It's certainly not 25m, possibly 20m on a good day. Still, it's the best I've got available so I'll just get on with it...

A good session.… Continue