Ok first up I think the picture probably looks worse than it is and I will hopefully be resuming light exercise within the next couple of days and maybe lay off the running for a week or so.
Right will start at the beginning. We were lying pretty much where I would have expected us to be after stage 10 which was somewhere in the late 20's and still had an outside chance of qualifying for the National so I was looking forward to a good run and hopefully pick off a few places for the team. gfshjgfsjfsjgsfjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjsgjfsjjsgjsgj
The first half of the race was very fast indeed assisted by a strong tail wind, it was when I started to come back into the head wind that disaster struck. I was leaning into the wind hard so as to try and stay in the middle of the path and out of nowhere the wind suddenly stopped and I clipped the curb and went over on the ankle. Now under any other circumstances I would have aborted the race unless it was one of my A races to avoid further damage but I had 11 other guys relying on me to finish so I had to bite my tongue and shut out the pain and limp home for the last 2 miles in the hope that we could still salvage something. gfjgfjfgjjjjjjjjjjffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffgjsffjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjsgjfgj
I still ended up running 27:36 for 5 miles but in a lot of pain at the finish and whisked into the St Johns Ambulance at the end and luckily my Dad was with me to drive me home. The good news is after closer inspection it is not broken and I should bounce back soon. It is already feeling a little better. gfjssssssssssssssssssssggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggsgfjjgjfgjgjsgjfgjjs
I am 5 weeks out from Portugal so I hope to God I can come back quick form this one.
