Ray Smedley

Saturday 4.30pm 11KM Roo+Lake 41m24

I opened an email from Dr.JamieH who gave me some advice and recommendations about the knee.

He suggested that perhaps Rest might not be what's required, which was all I needed to hear, I was heading out the door within half an hour! Knees remain about the same, the thing is I can run (with some pain), they don't appear to be getting progressively worse and I really don't want to lose my current form if I can just see out the road season. So happy to hit the road again! Felt slightly rusty and a few other aches and pain from backyard jobs this arvo. Was steady up till about half way then really opened up the engine and felt good, form and time was pretty good. Dipped the legs into the freezing cold water in the pool after the run.

I will book an appointment with Dr. Peter Friis who diagnosed my 'sports' hernia and referred me to specialist Dr.Nick O'Rourke last Winter.

I'm praying that Cadel can do it tonight. It is so exciting and it will be so close.

The trouble is I can see Cadel doing it buy a few seconds but then he is going to be under serious attack by CSC all the way up the Champs-elysees !!