Well I had a super holiday… It was great that both Burn Park and the Clowance Estate had health centres which did massage. So I actually came back in better shape than when I went! I even finally managed to get back on my bike once, but I took it very easy, just a very short ride in the daylight when the weather was good!. The highlights of the holiday included the Eden project and looking all over Tintagal Castle for King Arthur!

My arm is now feeling much better, although there is still a long way to go. I guess I will be back Sailing properly in a couple of months. It does not feel “right” but it is now just aching all the time rather than being painful: I have not had any sharp, stabbing pain (my arm telling me to stop doing what ever it is I am doing right now!) for a little while. So I feel able to get back to training slowly. The arm still trembles uncontrollably when I try and straighten it but the range of movement is coming back. There are also occasional pins and needles in the last two fingers on the outside of my right hand but this is becoming less frequent which is also good news.

I am looking forward to getting back to my local Weymouth gym, Future Physiques (http://www.futurephysiques.co.uk ) for the first time in months, to do some gentle upper body work. I must admit to being more than a little bit disappointed when I tried to do a wide grip pull up before I went on holiday and found I couldn’t even do one (I used to be able to do sixteen!) However on holiday I managed to do my first one which I was dead chuffed with (I have never been so pleased to get my chin over the bar)! It should now only be a matter of time for me to build back up… Having spent so long out of action I feel I need more rest than previously (I really don’t want to push too hard, too soon and have a setback). So I have decided to have a mid week break. I find it very hard to simply rest so I am going to use Wednesdays as an opportunity to do some writing. This means I can still think about sailing but give my body a chance to recover. This also works very well as Wednesday tends to be the most popular day for my Be Your Own Sailing Coach talks.

Now my main aim is to be back fit for the World Qualifiers which start in mid March. Although I missed the first half of the series (the three October qualifiers) due to my broken arm, which means I have to count a last place in my series, I hope that if I get some really good results this spring I shall still be able to qualify for the Radial World Championships in La Rochelle this summer.

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