Back on track...

Finally, the all clear comes through on the Achilles tendon. It's been a few weeks of ultrasound with Kevan, but it's now looking good. Four weeks to go.

So, a new fitness programme. The old running programme went out the window and will, by now, be swooping with albatrosses somewhere over the Pacific. The new programme, thanks to Rachel Armstrong at Personal Best, is mostly general fitness with some running.

Any hopes I had of running neatly all the way around have disappeared. I'm going to be in run-walk mode now. And I'm going to enjoy every moment.

The 500 miles? Still relevant - but some of it's going to be on the rowing machine that I'll be using for the next couple of weeks. Running 500 miles seemed to be a lot. Rowing a couple of hundred does too.

Looking good...