Experienced Richmond midfielder Nathan Foley is remaining upbeat in the wake of his latest injury setback.

Foley, who has had a wretched run with injuries over the past few years, told ‘Roar Vision’ that he is recovering well from minor foot surgery that he underwent recently.

“I had a bit of plantar fasciitis spring up on me post-Christmas and managed it for a while.  But it got to the point where we realised it was going to be too annoying throughout the year to manage and decided to go in for a quick, little operation, which was just a plantar fascia release. That’s worked incredibly well, so very happy with it,” Foley said.

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“The beauty of it is it’s such an easy operation, and doesn’t have a great deal of recovery time involved . . .

“It’s gone really smoothly so far.  I’m back running outside and just have to tick off a couple of things in terms of agility and high-speed running before I can join the training group, but that won’t be too long.  So, look, hopefully only three weeks off playing.”

The 29-year-old veteran of 154 games in 10 years with Richmond, admitted the timing of the injury, and subsequent surgery, was frustrating.

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“It would have been nice to even be three weeks earlier, just to give me a bit more training coming into the season, but it’s certainly better than having it mid-year.  So we’ll get it done now and have no issues with it during the season,” Foley said.

“I’ll just look to train as hard as possible on the track, put some good form in, in the VFL, and hopefully a (senior) spot opens up at some stage.”