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Nice one - chapeau!!
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Great stuff
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Sweet success
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Alex Yee with a 61:29 half in Valencia
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Warmup for another mara in December apparently.
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Looks like the European record went in the same race to Swedish fella - 58:41
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As per the injury thread I’ve pretty much accepted I’ll be a DN* next week in Italy but will enjoy the few days away and sunshine. Part of me is tempted to go to the start and have an easy walk\jog until around the first aid station, that part of the route looks really nice and there’s a bailout bus from what I can see at the aid stations.
I could always take a huge backpack and fill it with nutrition from the aid station, those Naak products are quite pricey 
Got the Leeds 10K as well, so unless there’s some miraculous recovery I’ll possibly miss that as well as I doubt there’ll be transfers, could go for the day out and jog it but don’t want to set myself back if I’m starting to recover.
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A mad Irish friend (is there ever a sane Irish friend??) at IMDE Frankfurt back in 2006 had a bolloxed knee but said he was going to do the swim, bike into T2 in the city and then DNF rather than risk more knee damage. Of course he didn’t - he went and did the whole bloody thing!
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I had an appt with my back physio this morning. She does a few road races but her partner is on the cusp of sub 3hr marathon.
They are off to San Sebastian marathon soon but she said her partner shouldn’t really be doing it because he has hurt his knees.
I said ‘don’t you advise him?’ and she said ‘yes but he just doesn’t listen’. 
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Not much different to some of the advice that one of the forum’s medics has been given when injured which has been suitably ignored.
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Typical Y chromosome behaviour 
Guilty as charged if you mean moi & the right calf strain thing. Did stay off for it 2 weeks the second time it went though, as per @APM ‘s instructions (he might have suggested longer…) & had a very lazy October.
It feels 99% better now happily. Just the slightest twinge sometimes when running.
Know I should be stretching and doing strength work, but predictably am doing no such thing
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Yes - you 
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The irony is not lost on me.
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The fact that I’m telling a Doctor how to manage an injury.
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I would also ignore my own advice, and frankly have done several times leading to further calf trouble. Hypocrite.
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Welsh Inter-Regions XC Champs yesterday at Newtown which is a whole afternoon affair of N,S,W & E Wales pitting all AGs against each other.
It’s been about 20yrs since I last repped North Wales - up The Wrekin at the Inter-County Fell Champs - & I was chuffed to find my vest & still fit in it.
Always a bit nervous being selected for a team because if you’re not going to place in the top 3 you absolutely want to justify your selection by being a counter in the team. We had a team of 6 and it was 5 to count, I only knew one of my North Walian teammates & had no chance of distinguishing any of the others as my race had everything from 20yr olds to 64yr olds.
I ran ok - set a new HR threshold -finished 116th overall, 6/33 in AG & was 3rd counter to help my team of oldies take 
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Well done, Doon 
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Did 3:46:08 at Florence marathon today. Fine with the time although I probably could have paced it better but it happens. Plenty of great sights on the route. Training was greatly affected by work so the frequency of regular runs wasn’t there. Legs are sore AF now.
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Cheers @jeffb nice to be appreciated , after the race Strava downgraded my predicted 10km time by 3secs😂
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Well done
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Had a quick shifty at the results & under prepared or not you seem to have ran a solidly paced race. Good man 
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