Quite warm tonight, so my choice of shirt and jacket – as it was dark and trying to rain – meant it was very warm.

Weight is up a massive 3oz from Monday

Very windy this even thanks to ex-Hurricane Ophelia. Weight is up 1.4lbs since Thursday, but then I did weigh myself after dinner…

Long day and still quite tired. Weight is up 10oz…

After working out earlier in the week, this was my first run since coming back from Fuerteventura. Dididn’t feel too bad, but lots of – ahem! – “interval traing”, shall we say

Weight is down 3.3lbs since Monday … which is nice.

Ankles and knees were in shock today after getting back into running after so long, so I cut this one short at 4.km.

Weight down from earlier in the week by 0.7kg.

Six weeks since my last run due to – oh – everything and it was tough. I decided to ease myself back in tonight. Up 1.1kg since the end of July, but then I have been on holiday eating mahoosive dinners!

Still hard work, but I wanted to get another 5k in before this weekend’s half-marathon. Weight loss since 10 April is 5lbs.

Second opportunity this week to walk to work and run home. Still finding it hard work though. Maybe next week? Weight loss of 1lb, though, since Monday.

So after an eight week lay-off – other than walking to and from work when I can – it was back into my evening run home. What rapidly became clear was a) how my fitness has declined in that time, and hence b) how running the Paris Marathon in less than four weeks would be foolhardy: I’d have done even less preparation than I had when I ran the Berlin Marathon and that was bad enough. So it’s the MK Half Marathon in May and a couple of 10k races and back into the ballot for London and/or Paris 2018. Oh and I’ve gained 1lb in the same eight weeks…