First run with my new trainers this evening and my back is already thanking me! Since I started running last year I have been saying to myself that I would invest in some new shoes when I reached week X in the C25K plan, could run Y miles or for Z minutes. Targets came and went but my tatty 4 year old trainers stayed the same! Although, admittedly, I only realised just how tatty they were when I compared them to my new ones this evening...

Odd day. Started with a lovely & very chatty GP who was very helpful in a roundabout sort of way! Equipped with reassurance, painkillers & a number to self-refer to physio I'm hoping that last week's particularly painful bout of back ache will be the first and last time that it forces me to bed.