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Three months in Florida. It is not a bad way to start a New Year and Louis Persent is certainly not complaining about it. The 400m runner is approaching three years since he last competed but is confident that his injury woes are finally behind him. Warm-weather training has been prescribed to ensure that is the case meaning that, while the British public ready themselves for snow, Persent finds himself training in temperatures regularly in the high-teens and above. Training is not just a physical pursuit it is also a mental battle so it is important to be able to have a time or a place where you can completely relax Louis Persent It is not the first time the Sky Academy Sports Scholar has travelled abroad for training purposes but it is the first time he has gone alone and he has never been away for as long as he will be in Gainesville on this occasion. Not that he is too concerned about the situation. “It’s exciting; it’s a chance to get to know somewhere a bit new,” he told Sky Sports. “I think it is just about finding your routine and once you have a routine things go quickly – I can’t believe it’s already been three weeks.“It’s quite good here because it is a university town so there are lots of young people and lots of things to get involved with as well, so that definitely helps.“Obviously if I had gone on my own somewhere which was a bit isolated or there wasn’t that much going on then I think that would have been quite tough. But here there is a good balance of being at the track and the gym for most of the time during the day but also having free time to do other stuff.”Of course, the main reason for Persent’s trip to Gainesville is to train and ready himself for action when the 2015 outdoor season gets underway. However, the 24-year-old Cambridge graduate has a fair amount of free time on his hands in a foreign country and is keen to make the most of it.“To be honest I need to do more because the first 10 days I was ill in bed,” he explained. “Then I’ve been out to see a little bit of Gainesville and then there are a few university groups that I have gone along to see what’s happening. Persent is targeting a comeback in early spring “There are some days that I am so tired after training that all I want to do is watch TV and cook dinner but I do have time at weekends and stuff to go and explore.”So how exactly has Persent been filling his time away from the track?“Just simple stuff, TV, there are a few cinemas nearby so the group often does that. So far nothing super-exciting or anything like that,” he added.“I like to be able to just chill out a bit but I also like to explore a bit and there is quite a good independent music scene in Gainesville so at the weekends I have gone at had a look at some good small record stores and things going on like that which is quite cool.“Hopefully every week at the weekend I can go and do something that is a bit more to do with Gainesville rather than just sitting at home watching TV!“I think it is really important (to switch off from athletics) and it is something that is so not me in a way. I like to be busy doing things and not just recovering. But now I know how important it is so I’m slowly getting better at being able to switch off.It used to be that if I wasn’t training I needed to be doing something, doing work or making the most of my time. It is really important to switch off completely and give your body a rest but also your mind.Training is not just a physical pursuit it is also a bit of a mental battle when you have a hard session so it is important to be able to have a time or a place where you can completely relax.” Persent last raced competitively in 2012 One factor that has helped Persent to feel settled in his new temporary home is that his work on the track and in the gym is going so well.Persent’s training group includes 400m hurdles double world champion Kerron Clement and he is happy to be in a position to test himself and his speed alongside such high class athletes.“It’s the first time that I have ever trained in group of such high quality,” he said. “That’s quite different because I’m used to a lot of one-on-one attention from a coach and being on my own quite a lot when it comes to training. The last few years I’ve come more from the fitness end of things with an endurance background so it’s a chance for me to train with people who train really fast Louis Persent on his training group “It’s definitely nice when you do your weight sessions that there is a buzz, there are always people around when you’re warming up; it’s more of a social atmosphere.“Another one of the big pluses of coming to a place like this is that I have never been able to tap fully into my speed and this is a group of people who are really, really quick – they can run 100m close to sub-10 or 10 seconds dead which is a region of speed that I have never been able to get anywhere near.“(That is) partly because of injuries, I haven’t been able to do that kind of training. Now that my body is better it is a much safer environment to work towards that at this time of year. It is really helpful.”Now in his mid-20s, Persent also backs himself to know what is best for his body, something he sees as key for his development as an athlete in the coming years.“As you get older and you get more experience it becomes less of you just listening to your coach and becomes more of a partnership,” Persent said.“You understand a lot more of what you are doing, what works, how your body responds to certain things. I guess that now I’m more confident that I’m in a position to say, ‘I don’t think that is going to work, I think I need more of this’ or whatever it may be and that is important, to always be aware of what you are doing and why.”Now is the time that Persent has to put that confidence to good use as he gets ever closer to a long-awaited comeback and he believes that he is in the perfect place to do just that.“It’s good,” he concluded. “The facilities are great, it’s an amazing group of athletes so I’m just looking forward to the next eight weeks and getting some good work done.” Custom Suns Jerseys . -- Ken Appleby made 32 saves for his first shutout of the season to lead the Oshawa Generals to a 2-0 win over the Belleville Bulls on Wednesday in Ontario Hockey League action. Custom Suns Jersey China . Shot outdoors against the stunning backdrop of Banff, Alta., the networks 30-minute original production airs tonight at 8pm et/5pm pt on TSN2. 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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Dressed in a dark turtleneck and slacks, his arms folded across his chest, Tom Brady stood in the middle of the New England Patriots locker room making small talk with a small circle of guests.What a day, the quarterback told the group. He would pose for a picture, lean over to kiss a woman on her cheek, and tell a departing teammate, Marcus Cannon, that hed played a good game. Brady appeared to be hosting his own little cocktail party, or assuming the role of the teams good-natured ma?tre d. He was acting nothing like the stone-cold killer he has been on game days for 16 years and counting.Hed just secured his 200th NFL victory (postseason included), tying Peyton Mannings record with a 22-17 victory over the New York Jets, and by late afternoon next Sunday, after a home game against the Rams, hell probably stand alone as the winningest quarterback of all time. And if you were paying attention during his latest conquest of the Jets, you understood why Pick No. 199 (of the 2000 draft) didnt remain stuck on victory No. 199 for another week.Brady had brought his C-plus game to MetLife Stadium, and for good reason: He was playing on one leg, playing without the injured Rob Gronkowski (knocked out early because of a back injury), and, at 39, playing against his tick, tick, ticking biological clock. Hed won an emotional homecoming game against San Francisco in Week 11, flown back across the country, and missed a couple of practices because of his achy right knee before facing a divisional opponent with a history of hitting him hard in defeat.Im happy the week is over, Brady said. It was a long week.It was a longer week for the home team, of course, because Brady still found a way to beat the Jets for the 22nd time in 28 regular-season starts. Even though Brady was off for most of the game, stunning longtime admirers by sailing balls over open receivers, everyone in the house knew what was coming after the Jets wasted a possession while holding a one-point lead in the middle of the fourth quarter.Brady took the ball at his own 17 with 5:04 to play, and the feeling inside MetLife Stadium reminded of the feeling inside Madison Square Garden in the 1990s when Michael Jordan took the ball in the closing minutes. It was game, set, overmatched. Brady faced a fourth-and-4 with 2:53 left, and the older Jets fans in their Joe Namath jerseys and the young ones in their Darrelle Revis jerseys had to know, deep down, that their 3-7 team wasnt about to stop the singular figure who has tormented them like no other.If we dont make that play, Brady said, its hard to win the game.He made the quick pass to James White, whose dive for the first down the quarterback described as a championship-type play. On the next snap Brady found Chris Hogan wide open down the middle, and on the play after that he found Malcolm Mitchell in the end zone for the second time, both touchdowns coming at Revis expense.In the end the considerable number of Patriots fans in the building were heard chanting Bradys name. The right-minded Jets fans who headed for the parking lots? They had to feel like the right-minded fans of those bygone Knicks teams that could never beat Jordan when it mattered most -- frustrated by the dominance, but respectful of the sustained greatness.Truth is, Brady at 39 is much better than Jordan at 39, in the colors of the Washington Wizards, if only because Bradys position demands far less in the athleticism and foot speed departments. But still, the man has thrown 18 touchdown passes against one interception this season. In his own way, Brady is every bit the freak of nature that Gronk is.So even the Jets suspected what was about to go dowwn in the final minutes Sunday.ddddddddddddYou definitely dont want to put Tom in those situations, said Revis, who was Bradys teammate during New Englands last championship run.I felt good, Brandon Marshall said of the Jets fourth-quarter lead, but I knew that Tom Brady has that thing where it kicks in. Hes a special player. Hes one of the best to ever do it. Theres never a time where hes out of it.Just look at the divisional record books. More than three dozen men have started at least one game for the Jets, Bills and Dolphins since Brady became a starter three weeks into the 2001 season, and only one -- Chad Pennington -- has won an AFC East title (Pennington won for the Jets in 2002, and for Miami in 2008, when Brady effectively missed the entire year). Brady has outlasted more Jets quarterbacks than Fidel Castro outlasted U.S. presidents. He just became the fifth NFL passer to throw for at least 60,000 yards, which means he has doubled Namaths career output -- plus another 5,000 yards.The man who drafted him, Bill Belichick, is usually the last man in any room interested in arranging an in-season parade for Brady or anyone else. But after calling his guy a good player who has great mental toughness, Belichick embraced a question about the historical magnitude of Bradys 200th victory, citing the quarterbacks semi-legal, fourth-down head fake that drew the Jets offside as an example of his intangible gifts.The 200 Ws, Belichick said, says a lot about him and what hes been able to do for this franchise. Thats what its all about. Thats what a quarterbacks job is, to win. Hes done a great job of that. I think today is a good example of not turning the ball over, some good situational plays that came up that dont show up in the stat sheet, like the fourth-and-1 offside ... that are plays that you need for your team to win. Tom does a great job of that. Hes as good a situational football player as Ive ever been around. The quarterbacks job is to win. Hes won a lot. Thats good. Im glad hes our quarterback.Along with his coach, Brady has been the driving force behind New Englands run of 16 consecutive winning seasons, an absurd streak in a league that uses the schedule, the draft, the salary cap and free agency to protect the virtues of parity and to prevent franchises from, you know, running off 16 consecutive winning seasons. Take a quick survey of last seasons one-hit wonders, the Panthers and Cardinals. They were a combined 28-4 in 2015; theyre a combined 8-13-1 in 2016.Its hard -- really hard -- to win consistently in the NFL. And even in a season he opened with his four-game Deflategate suspension, Brady has made it look easy. He completed passes to eight receivers against the Jets, none named Gronkowski, and found six of them for at least three receptions.When it was over, Brady stood before a microphone and engaged in full postgame Bradyspeak. He addressed his staggering individual accomplishments only in a team context, and swore the injury he played through was no more debilitating than the injuries a lot of Patriots played through.You just do the best you can do, the quarterback said. And Ill try to do the same this week.He will conform to the unforgiving diet designed by his fitness guy, Alex Guerrero, who sat at Bradys locker after Sundays game, and he will keep raging against the notion that a 39-year-old quarterback should be in decline. Tom Brady is going to be Tom Brady. For those fans of the Jets, Bills and Dolphins desperately waiting for him to grow old, heres a little advice:Dont hold your breath. ' ' '