Not been for years since I nearly shattered my knee on a pipe in Chamonix
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Nasty. End your holiday?
My brother in law did his collarbone a couple of holidays ago. Was a proper palava.
Luckily no.
Ended up with a tennis ball sized sack of fluid just the side of it.
Got bored after a couple of days and drained it lol
Tested the legs on Tuesday with some easy laps round the outside of the track while the session went on. Couldnāt do anything earlier as I couldnāt bend to do my shoelaces up 
Didnāt feel too bad really just a bit sore on the road rash. 6 miles last night with a few hills and felt better still, so will try and get back to it this weekend. New bars, tape and tyres on order
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Iām having a rest day today (same as yesterday) but after last weekās lack of long run, I could really do with getting in a 28-30km but Sat and Sun look equally dismal. 
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Thereās no reason why you canāt put a positive spin on the rest day over on the Smashfest thread. Tell us how the rest will make your body come back stronger than Stonecold Steve Austin on Angel Dustā¦or something.
Good plan. I got some Dark Chocolate Chilli for Valentineās Day, currently smashing through that as I forgot my lunch today. 
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Just a gentle run for me yesterday followed by physio this morning. Original issue was pain in left foot arch, diagnosed tendonitis caused by a weak left ankle and so lots of stability strengthening and weighted exercises.
This morning was seated single leg press, both slow and dynamic (think single leg weighted jumps). Got up to 120kg single leg on the slow movement ones. Then the dreaded abductors, just about maxed the machine out, the 100kg was hard to get moving. Finally, seated, weighted calf raises, I think he put 46kg on my knee - feel the burn!
He strongly suggested no running after the session for a couple of days, which given the weather forecast, Iām more than happy to comply with.
Same here, Iām just in town looking for some MTFU in sportsdirect 
Luckily a marathon in 9 weeks is both stressing and focusing things 
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My marathon is also in 9wks. uggh
A successful week for me. Iāve halted the fall in my run CTL
A half marathon in 2wks seems a fairly hefty challenge right now. When I entered, I was optimistic of PBing for the third year running 
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The Big Half???
Speaking of half, itās half term for us (INSET day today, so no Friday ride and snuck a swim in early doors)ā¦and this week has been half-arsed.
Far too cold to want to go out.
30km road run with hydro vest vest. 323mtrs vert. 2hr50, 5.40 pace.
54km running for the week
1hr20 turbo
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Strewthā¦
Itās awful here ā¦
Hard mans runnin that!
Howās the vestā¦!?
Local parkrun for me, 19:41, but absolutely suffered all the way, it felt much harder than a 19:15 on Christmas day. And I had a total day off yesterday.
Struggling a bit lately so may have to back off a bit or keep things easy, it might be an easy week next week anyway.
I still feel a bit tired, but thereās a few bugs going round at work.
Hoping to do about 2 hours easy tomorrow and Iāll see about getting on the Wattbike as well, definitely not doing a 2.5 hour bike ride in this.
Jeff
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Yeah it wasnāt pleasant at all. Itās getting worse here as well.
I really like the vest, I find the 5ltr just about big enough to cover all but the depths of winter stuff, where you might need to carry extra stuff. I find it very adjustable.
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I think everyone was suffering today mate, that weather was not conducive for PBs.
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50 seconds faster again for the 180 l marathon swim.
Iāve swam 3 times in 4 weeks, but doing a swim focused s and c session and swim stretches once a week are obviously doing somethingā¦
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My local group plan To go outā¦!?
Reallyā¦?!