Felt really yucky this morning - four days without doing any exercise. The last couple of days I've had this strange pain in my upper back. I know it's nothing to worry about but it's quite painful when I breathe in. It came on during the gig on Thursday night. Sometimes, if I'm at a gig, or a museum or anything that involves standing for a prolonged amount of time, I always seem to end up with a backache. Yesterday it was bad enough to convince me to take a sickie. And I was just so bloody tired. What bliss it was to crawl back in to bed and sleep until 10. Anyway, I thought the longish gap would mean that today's run would be really hard work but it was ok except I had a stitch practically the whole way though and I couldn't get rid of it.

6.5k run / 43:40

Have not had hardly any time to run this week. I hate it when things get in the way but I also don't want to, like, not have a life. It would be so nice if I just had a little more time... I still haven't quite got my head round the getting up at 5am thing and going out bleary-eyed into the dark, freezing morning. I know it's an option. But at the moment, with these mornings, it feels like the least preferable one of all.

Monday

1 x 5k run. 32:15.

Felt really uncomfortable in the last ten minutes. A bit dizzy and pukey. I think I really need to start getting more sleep. Going to bed at 1am (on average) and getting up at 6 really can't be good for me.