120k October

There are no treats for my feets this month, unfortunately I really hurt my back last week which means I haven't been able to run this week therefore didn't end up hitting the monthly target and finished October on 95 kilometres. I did try and go out a couple of times but it has been too painful and also the last 5k I did nearly had me in tears.

This week has been weird; I can't imagine my life without running now. On Sunday I could barely walk and it really  made me realise how much I take for granted being able to walk let alone run. As you can imagine I have been a pretty grumpy playa all week and each evening has come and I have been more annoyed at myself I can't run, I invited Bryony over for dinner last night and barely spoke to her and then proceeded to have to walk around work today like I had something shoved up my arse because my back was hurting so much.

On my lunch I stumbled to Office to see that they finally have the fall drop of the Liberty X Vans but decided against purchasing any. Now this wasn't because I didn't want to or didn't have the cash monies but I picked them up, was about to ask for my size and then thought 'Whats the point in having a target if when you don't hit it you buy yourself the prize anyway?'. So I put the floral delight down and have decided to wait until I have racked up the kilometres, its also my birthday next week and my Mama said I had to be careful with what I purchased before hand so who knows they could be mine. I was also lucky enough that this week my good pal Kyle picked me up a Liberty Vintage shirt so its not all bad for a full time playa. How exquisite is this?!

I was going to try run this evening as I'm so dosed up on ibuprofen and deep heat I can't feel it but have decided to see how it feels in the morning and fingers crossed I can begin November running tings. I am setting the target at 120k as I didn't hit it this month and I am planning on starting to train for a half marathon which means I will probably be running for longer but less times a week rather than running 5-6 times a week.

So I don't have a running track but I think its only appropriate I post this track after Mr Blake won the Mercury Music award for his album 'Overgrown'. I am a massive James Blake fan and when I first heard this song I wasn't a very happy playa to say the least infact I wasn't even a playa..slight blip in my career as the OG FTP,  it was last year and after a few listening I fell in love with it and actually text my friend Nav to say ''I think this album has changed my life'', not even exaggerating this track actually did...