Day 10 – Thursday 14th July (Tampere) Moose count = not a single one! Today the weather was much improved after the storms of the previous night and for us it was all about Tampere. The apartment was in the middle of a building site (some sort of tunnel seems to be under construction, for…
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Travel 2016 – Turku, Day 8
Day 8, Tuesday 12th July (Turku) Moose count = still none! I started the day by going for a run, foolishly assuming I would find my way back really easily. I hadn’t thought that the river I crossed might be more complicated than it seemed, and that there could be more than one area full…
Running 2015 – Cancer Research UK London Winter Run
So… the inaugural Cancer Research UK London Winter Run, all 10k of it. As most people must already know my last actual race (as in a timed event with chip timing and everything – not a parkrun) was back in the mists of time, in March 2011 in fact when I completed the Silverstone Half…
Fitness 2014 – Fitness Musings
I’ve been having an interesting time of late with some relatively minor – well, I look on it as minor anyway – surgery. Through it all I’ve tried very hard to maintain my efforts to rebuild my fitness now I seem to be able to run again, and to try and shift the extra 36…
Fitness 2014 – Shhh….Whisper It… Don’t Alert the Running Gods
On the grounds that they are nasty, sneaky beasties who take pleasure in tormenting runners by making them into non-runners. I think I may be making progress. I’m probably not doing as much core work as I should, but after 6 weeks of solid swimming sessions to build some endurance (and some upper body tone…
Fitness 2013 – Anniversary Musings
It’s a year almost to the day since I had my reconstructive surgery on my ankle, and it’s most impressive how much better it is now. There’s some residual tenderness and pain in the back of my heel (but then again it’s only 4 months since the metalwork holding the bone in place was removed)…
Fitness/Life 2013 – Life Stuff
It’s been an “interesting” 8 months. As some people will know, we got back from Macau last November and were almost immediately hit with the news that Tony, my father-in-law had had a stroke. Cue lots of desperate rushing back and forth from the Midlands to Bristol, visiting the hospital, fighting the solicitors to get…
Fitness 2012 – 10 Week’s Since Surgery
Well, my ankle is still a bit stiff – and a bit sore on the outside along the more complicated wound site – but it’s moving well in most directions, and I have successfully walked from bed to bathroom and back several times now without the ski-boot contraption to protect it. I am therefore optimistic…
Fitness 2012 – Ankle Progress and Weight Loss
Well, it’s almost three weeks now since the cast came off and I can’t believe how much progress I seem to be making. At the weekend the rebuilt bits of tendon and ligament were giving me an annoyingly hard time, cramping, but some added salt with dinner on Sunday and Monday seems to have sorted…
Fitness 2012 – Ankle Operation Latest
Well, it’s now 8 weeks and 1 day exactly since Professor Ribbans operated on me to rebuild my right ankle (Posterior Tibial Tendon Reconstruction and Calcaneal Osteotomy, Spring Ligament Reconstruction) which basically means that I have had the snapped tibialis posterior tendon attached to the digital flexor tendon that holds my big toe on, the…
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