45:00 | moderate I met up with Cool Blogger Blkbox today for a quickish run through Queens & Centennial Parks. I felt pretty good today with only a slight tightness down the outside of the thigh (ITB I guess). I spent most of Friday stretching not only that area but my glutes, abductors and other hip type stuff. A revelation was rolling my butt on a tennis ball. Doing that I found a nasty patch deep in my glute which I reckon (based on the level of pain) could even be a tear. Berta the Massage fiend's advice of warming the ITB etc with a heat pack before I stretch and applying ice afterwards, things seemed to work OK and made the run go OK. Today at the Easter Show (groan, am I just a cranky old man or is a $350 for day out with the family a tad ridiculous?) my ITB was not troubling me but moreso little niggles deep inside the hip and glute. A warm shower this evening and stretch seemed to fix it OK though. So, for today anyway, I'm feeling OK and confident that I can kick this sooner rather than later. I shall now tuck into an Easter Egg in celebration I think. Oh yeah, Fat Friday was cancelled for this week. Today I had a pie and a beer and fairyfloss and some fudge and a milkshake and (I won't go on) .... then stopped off at Norton Street for Pizza tonight. Back on the diet on Monday or Tuesday I think. Mood: --->

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