#Stage 3 trainee search dog Aven

Instagram #hastydog 

After a week of hard intense work, Aven and I stepped up to the Stage 2 search dog test on Sunday. 

I have great faith in her, but still I had to silence a few butterflies....

Together we've been progressing along this journey, still with no expectations, I continue with my best furry mate. As long as she enjoys it...I will 

 About time she had her own instagram page #hastydog.

Are we playing...or are we playing?......

Had the pleasure of running and playing with these two this week

#motherofavendog #sisterofavendog #familylove

                                              Just love running these 3....it's noisy though!

It's been a mucky old January and I have spent most of it, covered in this brown stuff and damp :)  The thing is, I quite like it and I'm not the only one! 

Looking forward to some perhaps colder, whiter conditions in the Lakes next week. #adventuredog is set to have her first real mountain experience....sharpen them claws chucky, we're going up!!

Been a while

Back to the dog running!  It's been a few months of gentle recovery, but glad to say that my running paws are now fit for adventures.
Got some Christmas pooch excesses to work off this month, so back hitting the trails with some of my fav hounds!
Whatever the weather, I've got a coat for it, those 4-legged friends love an adventure!

#gohardorgohome #dogrunner #adventuredog #h2adventures #paws25k #lovewhatyoudo

"Dynamic hip screw (DHS) or Sliding Screw Fixation is a type of orthopaedic implant designed for fixation of certain types of hip fractures which allows controlled dynamic sliding of the femoral head component along the construct. One common use is internal fixation of intertrochanteric fractures of the femur." (Wikipedia 2017)

Kind of says it all, what I at first thought a simple hip flexor issue, turned out to be a complete ( non displaced)  fracture of the neck of femur. The next sentence of the wiki explanation reads " often found in older people". 

So has the last 20 odd years of racing and diets and low body weights, endurance events finally got me? Probably and although I certainly didn't see this coming yet, my young bones are shouting at me to help them out of a stick situation and it's time ( for the next few months) to listen to them...

I'm looking at a reasonably long recovery period, with help from our amazing NHS services I should make a full recovery and be back running hopefully next year. 

Currently I'm doing a lot of sitting on my arse and this is the way it has to be for a number of weeks. ...suck it up chuck!!

Am I in a happy place...No, but it's not forever, I will still get to live life after recovery and get back to them hills. 

Wow...its been a while

So since the last post, fricking loads has happened...ran across wales with my mate rach, entered the spine mrt challenger, got my cape wrath kit sorted, got over my disappointment with Aven, got plantar Faciitis, recovered, worked like a dog,dogging :)  Alfie got mega ill, had surgery, now recovering #luckydog. Ran injured, ran again with taping, got a pain, kept running, fed myself drugs...now on crutches.....lesson learnt!!!

Got 4 weeks to recover, no training,going slightly mad, but keeping up with upper body stuff in the gym

Also on a gym programme, upped my training, got some PT advice

Life is too short...who knows what os around the corner...#dowhatyoulovenow #getoutside #dostuff

Wow :)