Ouch! Very sorry to hear that mate. have you booked in with anyone to get it checked out?
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I can walk (hobble) about without agony now and can weight bare on it. Just been checked out, nothing mega serious and turns out that the side leg raises I can do its just my brain having a panic, due to having dislocated that leg 20 years ago.
Very frustrated with myself over the crash, a few lessons to take away!
Pre crash!
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“ you will be provided with an inflatable penis costume and it’s yours to keep! ”
Worth the £25 entry fee alone.
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I’ll have to have a proper look at your strava later on a laptop. But I’m pretty certain I know which bit (1 of 2 in my head) you crashed on! Woodbury is full of those little pebbles!
If it’s 1 of them, I have the running kom down it. Flat out at breakneck, there’s no chance you’re rescuing a misplaced foot, speed. We call it the gravelator and its a savage little section!
Hope the hip heals quickly. 
Your Saturday ride looked good though! 
The flat section where they dumped the new lot of pebbles, I remembered how hard it was trying to cycle through it the day before so popped up on the planks on the left hand side and dropped a load of people as they tired to cycle through it 
The gravelator Its the bridleway decent down to the Hawkerland triangle/road junction. Probably having ridden it before gave me misplaced confidence.
Re Saturday @Poet would have hated it. Lots of stopping. And yes it was a Spoons lunch
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It’s just occurred to me that Dartmoor in a Day (52km) is a week on Saturday! eek
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Saw that Weymouth 70.3 was still open yesterday tier 3&4, talked to the wife last night, got the ok, and…sold out this morning. 
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Roads round Weymouth closed 2 weekends running.
Tour of Britain and then 70.3 the following weekend.
I think it’s great, but expect some folk will get worked up and write to the Dorset Echo as usual
Wasn’t it something like £350 + fees though 
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Well yeah, but now I have to pay £700, plus flights and accommodation to do Cascais. Plus all the hassle of doing twice the race distance…
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Haha, I’m sure Portugal is nicer though!
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@APM - I’ve seen signs for the Ipstone 5 miler again. Plus, there’s another country fair “fun run” type thing the same weekend, but I can’t for the life of me recall where (it’s some tourist village around Staffs/Derbys)
Tourist?
It’s weird AF round there.
Also have a clash so happily avoid this year!
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Local Aquathlon today.
500m river swim, 5k pan flat run on mixed terrain.
14 in my wave, feeling confident of a decent place.
Finished 2nd, 6 minute swim, 19 minute run.
The guy who won, in his early 50’s, beat me by 3 MINUTES!
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M50 is where it’s at 
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Why not?
Where to start …
I didn’t run for 7 weeks solid after Cots with a calf injury.
In the last 2 weeks i’ve managed a 2km, 2 x 4km and a 6km run, all at 5/km pace.
In the 9 weeks since Cots i’ve barely been on my bike.
I’ve eaten poorly and enjoyed many wine and hop based treats.
I’m way over race weight, massively unfit and not even sure my calf could cope with 21.1kms at the moment.
Yes, it’s a bit of a shame as it’s a big race. But with the cost of everything etc i don’t have the desire to arrange a weekend to Cardiff, cost of overnight stay, fuel etc just to plod around a half.
So, yeah. Plenty of reasons!!
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Same as me then 
You’ve enjoyed summer by the sounds of it 
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