Sport and Exercise Medicine Job!

I got it!
So as of 03 Jan 2012 I will be moving jobs to Aldershot Regional Rehabiliation Unit working for the MOD looking after injured service personnel.  
I am absolutely chuffed to bits as Sport and Exercise Medicine has been my passion for some years and it will allow me to work in it full time.
I am looking forward to more specialist training e.g. in musculoskeletal ultrasound and hope to get involved in gait and running technique analysis.  I recently went to the UK Sport and Exercise Medicine Conference 2011 (see their website for details and blogs) and enjoyed hearing what Professor Dan Liebermann had to say about running and human evolution/body adaptations.  Humans are naturally adapted to run.  And Prof Liebermann believes that the natural way to run is on the midfoot.  I believe this too having changed over myself 2-3 years ago from being a heavy heel striker.  Midfoot running is more efficient (less cardiovascularly taxing) and of course you would never heelstrike run if you didn't have protective rubber on your heel.  Anyway - I'm preaching to the converted!
I also had the opportunity to hear Matthew Syed (Author of 'Bounce' and ex-Professional Tabletennis player) discussing Mastery and the theory of practice rather than talent - brilliant.  This was followed by a talk by Dan Coyle (Author of 'The Talent Code') - another great speaker.  I would recommend all their books - or better still, if you get a chance to hear them talk then go!

Aside from all this I am still training hard in between injections for my achilles - these are going really well and I hope they will allow me to go hard at the World O Champs in 2012 after which I will hang up my International O Shoes - this is of course just a useful metaphor because I don't think I'll actually be hanging up my Inov8's any time soon...