4.3 mile yesterday without any of the usual nagging pains. 3 for tonight and that will prove to me that these legs are fit enough to run in.

been well out of touch, injury afflicted to the outside of the foot probably caused by my eliptical trainer has made me put on about 1 stone and 2 inches around the waist. I tried on a dinner suit today which was fine 2 years ago this time and i embarrassed myself - I hope this excess can be lost in time for the holidays.

Cheeriness from the day was halted by this discovery though not all the day was confined to fear. I got myself a new toy for £11 under the asking price.

I fear as to its usefulness but it got me out of a rut. Next up will probably be the descent into mad electrical toys, like gps etc but not yet. 3.5 miles today - good to get out into the cold wind and open moon.

Just discovered genius on the itunes after fearing its information hoover sucking all my records from the laptop, its pretty cool after all.

Ran home from work with bulky rucsac, dropped it off and continued. Felt like I'd lost pounds of weight, was free and running without abandon. 2 mile stretch with that thing and then a 4 mile stretch without. The shorter seemed longer.

Does anyone know about how healthy your feet will become after using Nike Free Trainer's. I've sported them to work on occasion and found them to be supple and a welcome break from rigid running shoes.

I'm chicken enough not to run in them however - I'm worried that they don't provide the needed cushioning.

Those are the ones on the above right. I bought them like so many impulse buys - meaning well enough to warrant expenditure but then using them as carpet slippers due to their comfort. I like the look of them. They own cosmetic credibility due to their prescence coupled with an ipod nano on the Nike Ipod crossover deal but they are also rare and rarely used by serious runners.

found it difficult over the weekend to run particularly after a party friday night so I chilled saturday and went for a two hour bike ride to bath and back on sunday, this hurt the outside of my right foot in an alarming way to therefore warrant another rest on monday.

A swift 2 mile home run yesterday led to a 4.5 mile this evening, so I feel back in the mood.

Evening darkening - getting cooler, I sported an insulating headband as a result.

Disrupted running this week, boiler broken with consequences of smelly doom.

No hot water so a reliance on Fitness First showers means a re-jigging of routine and not a happy one. Fitness First relies on customers not wanting to improve their fitness but just their aesthetic and cosmetic look.

I tire of people not actually thinking about what is going on inside their lungs, skin, capilaries or arteries but boosting their self-esteem via the act of curling a dumbell in front of a mirror. This phenomenon grows on the monday evening for the populace to diminish as the time approaches friday. This is when the clientele will be frequenting the nightlife of bristol to show off this hard earned "look".

Back to it to burn off the excesses on the monday then.

I don't mind the idiocy too much to want to overtly leave, but it does make me long for my shower at home. I must have joined years ago and cling to the membership (a good rate) due to a fear of injury and a need of rehabilitation through the gym's steppers and cross-trainers. I do wonder though.

will have to really go some in order to be as lazy as this week. Gardening had taken over schedule on Sunday only for a monday 3 miler to precede drunken antics on wednesday night after the victorious 4 - 1 England match.

Suffering as I was at work for the next day, the evening run resulted in 20 minute sweater of a crawl before last nights 3 miler again, I feel I'm letting myself down. This will all change for a 6 miler this morning.

Gardening
Football
Work
Food
Drink
Birthdays

are all taking precedence over this marathon training and I'm wanting to cut back on the above.