Today I did a stupid thing...

[Seafront Plodder]

I managed to squeeze a 3 miler in this evening before the commencement of the beer festivities.

I still can't quite manage to shake off this annoying lower back ache though. It starts after a mile or so. It's fine now, but at the time is extremely hard to run through. If it keeps up as it has been I'm in danger of missing the Brighton 1/2.

I've had my shoes looked at by a specialist running shop and they've still got some miles in 'em, but I really can't think of anything else it can be. As I type, (Guinness by my side) some 90 minutes after the run, the back's fine - it's really only whilst running that it hurts.

Still, I'll know more after the long run on Sunday am, and today on the whole had been a good day. The M S Society (my the charity for whom I ran the London Marathon) have confirmed my place in the New York Marathon.

Good day made slightly worse by the announcement from Mrs SP that she and the two SP minors will be coming to cheer me on. Now don't get me wrong, I'd have given anything for them to be there at the finish-line in London or Dublin, but this time it's bound to have a serious effect on the wallet

Not cheap this running lark!