Hi again. There's been lots going on since I lasted posted. My rehab started to take shape rather quickly, which was very pleasing. I just added a mile or so a day and was soon up to 50mins of running. A week last friday I did my first double day, 30mins in the morning and then 35 at night! Happy days! Was up at 3.30 the next day though and on the way to Manchester airport. Our 7 o clock flight to Grenoble and what turned out to be a 4 hour transfer, weren't great but we just got on with it and were in Les Arc by mid afternoon. For the first two days the weather was pretty poor, which made skiing difficult, but after this we had a near perfect week. We also had a great night out, and bumped into some old school friends who were out there, which was a great surprise! Small world!!!
I also got some solid training in whilst there, making use of the 1800m altitude (if that was possible for the 7 days I was there!!!) My training consisted of a 30min run on sunday, 1hr on monday and 30mins on the tuesday. These were all done on some of the flatter slopes right outside the hotel door, and with my brother for company on the short runs! On the Wednesday I did my first session since the op. I went for 18 x 40secs uphill with a jog back recovery. This was done on a dirt road, with my bro doing 4 sets of 3. The session went really well and I was over the moon to be back doing some more quality running. Unfortunately though later that night the bottom of my left shin was playing up, and so I took thursday off. Ran friday without pain but afterwards I could feel it niggling again so I decided to leave it for the weekend and start back running on the monday of my return home, when hopefully it should have settled down.
I'll keep you informed on progress this week,
Pete
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