I’m thinking about doing this and enjoying it instead of destroying myself for a 20 second PB or sub 3h30
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A family friend is a member of the pool here and just took me in as a guest ( and paid!). I did a bit of aqua walking , which seemed to help.
Trying to sort out the plumbing woes at home though has really put me in a worse spot. Hopefully will ease today 
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Gubbed my hip on my slow long run today. It’s always in that last mile it goes wrong isn’t it…?
Has however confirmed that I really do hate running and post Tallinn will not be doing it again. I just get zero enjoyment out of it (leaving aside injury proneness) as a discipline.
Self-pity takeaway tonight.
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Quite the bruise Ive got. From a cricket ball bowled at probably close to 80mph from an England U19 player. Whole bottom of my leg hurts.
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Anyone got any tips for a good hip mobility/ strength routine that can be done at home every day and taking maybe 10 minutes or so?
I have made one up which involves a few exercises like lying on each side and doing 30 scissors, squatting leaning back against a window up and down, and the good old alphabet trace where you stand and one leg and write the 26 letters of the alphabet with the other foot.
Any other gooduns?
PS @GRamsay can you zoom out a bit so we can pass judgement on the trotters
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Were you not wearing pads??
Not sure about mobility, but I usually do banded clamshells, donkey kicks, banded bridges, sumo squats and deadlifts.
Think I got my resistance bands from decathlon.
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Tom is your man. For different reasons I’m a regular for joint mobility and strengthening and his stuff just works.
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I was but he got me on the side where there was no pad. Possibly they had twisted round a bit as well
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Thanks for the links.
Tom is funny. “We’re going to do 10 anticlockwise, and then 10 uncle-clockwise”
I’m liking the stairs streches, particularly as “stairs have adjustable settings” (choose a different step)
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My go to video is usually this one. Mainly because I work close to the stairs and it can be broken down easily into small chunks.
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Been to the Dr this morning re my back. She’s pretty convinced it’s a singular flare up (albeit a bad one) rather than something that needs scanning or interventions.
Rest and hydrotherapy plus pain relief is the call. So I’m off this week and have two hydro sessions booked today and Friday. She also gave me the name of a good sports physio in Winchester and I’m in there next week.
Physio is a Kiwi, so I’ll need to keep the ‘cousy bro’ and ‘fush and chups’ jokes to minimum. 
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And don’t ask if they sit on their dick…..
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I have a colonoscopy on Friday so I’ve started the run into that today.
The biggest issue is the dietary requirements - no wholemeal bread, no veg (bar a couple of things), no fruit, no red meats, no pies and pastries, no muesli etc etc. Fark - might as well just have water.
And then the deep joy on Thursday evening of cleaning my bowels out with Moviprep. Me and the toilet will be best friends for a few hours.
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Is that Agent Picolax’s friend 
Hope it goes well!
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Finally bit the bullet and went to physio about ankle the swelled up 4 weeks back and almost definitely linked calf issues (both) when running uphill. Also all linked to PF flair up no doubt, so lots of quite painful calf massaging, and some exercises to do but I’m a typical traffy, weak glutes, tight hip flexors leading to tightness in lower back and calfs. Oh and my “flat feet”! He says most can be attributed to the ACL injury, causing an imbalance, and prologed sitting all day then expecting body to suddenly like 100kg+ being pounded along concrete.
Lose weight, more strength, more mobilty, less chocolate I guess. I knew it but sometimes you have to put cash on the line to kick your arse into gear.
He knew @Matthew_Spooner virtually as hes doing TCR this year!
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