Well, I'm sat at home letting my Dad cook me a curry (I warned him not too spicy!!) before the Gosport half-marathon tomorrow. My piriformis injury seems at least manageable if not completely gone. I've been aware of it a couple times this week on the longer runs but it's not been painful or flared up later, so if it gets through 13.1 miles tomorrow at marathon pace tomorrow I'm confident it will make it through to Florence!

The plan tomorrow is to run with Tom Payn at around about marathon pace, although it's been blowing a gale today so it may be a pretty unpleasant race, but the effort is the point and I'd rather run with Tom in a race than go out on my own in a gale and try and do a similar training effort! Will also give me a bit of a confidence boost (hopefully) as I was in pretty good form before the problem and common sense tells me that missing 7-10 days of hard training won't make a great deal of effort but would be good to cruise a half at 68min pace or so and really *know* I'm still fit.

Ciao for now!

Ben