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An update - 31 Oct 2023

  Hello dear reader (there is probably only one of you!) Well after my triumphal return to 'competition' in March I got fitter and fitter... Until I went camping in Wales and returned with my first bout of Covid - it wasn't too bad - worse than a cold, not as bad as the flu, but it was three weeks of training wiped out.  I just started training again when I went on holiday (it's a tough life being married to a teacher!) and when I got back I managed to fall while running and sprain my ankle - so that was six weeks without any running! Started again (all on the road which is killing my knees) with an accelerated version of Couch-to-5k but the very next week caught a nasty cold.  Managed two weeks running before a hiking trip to the Lake District and so I have just started the running yet again.  It feels like two steps forward and one step back (or sometimes three steps forward, four steps back!). In the meantime, however, I am having vision problems - I have a coloured