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Thursday 1st December 2011
Tuesday is session day! After a slightly later start, the athletic collective assembled under the threatening storm clouds & made our way to the Iten track. & what a venue the Iten track is…perched on the side of the Rift Valley, decorated with grazing sheep & goats, with a...
Saturday 5th November 2011
The first surprise of the day was that I could get out of bed without too much pain. The second was that a 10 mile cycle chaperoning Andy Baddeley, Mark Draper & Paul Pollock actually felt good…even at 7.30 in the morning (these crazy endurance guys!). The route we took was...
Saturday 5th November 2011
I sit here about an hour from my departure back down to Eldoret, then destination Nairobi before arriving back in London in the early hours of Sunday morning. The sun is shining but the storm clouds are not too far away down the Rift Valley & the humidity is rising so I am...
Friday 4th November 2011
The last two evenings here have given an insight into the influence that nature has on this fragile environment. As night has fallen we have witnessed two of the most violent lightning storms I have seen, accompanied by torrential rain. For the locals this has brought concer...
Sunday 30th October 2011
This morning we all congregated for the week’s “long session”, which sounded ominous but Spencer, John & myself had decided on keeping the run to a 45 minute loop of about 5 miles…so nothing too strenuous. Luckily the sun had come out & the tracks had dried nicely, so the...
Saturday 29th October 2011
So you’d think it would be warm & sunny here in Kenya. Wrong, yesterday’s afternoon session took place in rather heavy rain. The support staff (Barry, John & Mick) hopped on the mountain bikes to chaperone the athletes round the course that had been designated & what a...
Friday 28th October 2011
Well, I’ve broken the first rule of keeping a blog! All the rules say that you have to maintain a routine of updates & don’t break that routine. Mmm, I think 2 weeks without a posting certainly smashes the routine of postings that I have become accustomed to broadcasting ...

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I am a dynamic, innovative & experienced Chartered Physiotherapist, having worked in elite sport since 1998. I have additional qualifications in exercise physiology, strength & conditioning & sports massage.

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