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  LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN JURBY – PART 4 TRAINING PROGRESS Training is so far going to plan, with 105 of the minimum 300 scheduled training miles completed by the end   of February. Mileage per session is also slowly increasing, with last Thursday’s 15 miles around Baldwin being the furthest to date, whilst a 13 miles hike including a ‘crawl’ up Injebreck hill being the toughest so far. This week I intend to travel out to ‘Stewart Jones’ territory’ around Maughold and reacquaint myself with the mythical Ballajora climb… It is interesting to note different training regimes across the competitors. Dean Morgan (4 th ) last year negotiates around his work schedule, by training regularly at night whilst my blogging peer Sammy Bowden (current Women’s champion) uses every opportunity between dropping off and picking up her family to get some miles in. Meanwhile Josh Knights (8 th in 2022) has posted 200 miles for February alone (!) Finally my nephew Ffinlo Moore, whose debut was thwarte