A good tempo (with belly ache)

15M - double; recovery run & tempo run
5M am recovery run at ~6.45min/M with pack
10M pm tempo run at 5.30 (0-5) and 5.20min/M (5-10); no pack

I'm going to do my evening runs packless from now. I think my pack has been making runs like this evening's harder to really push on and I think it has been detracting from my training.

I felt pretty good during the day despite last night's belly ache, but it came back after a couple of miles at 5.30 pace. Not as bad as yesterday, but pretty irritating nonetheless. And definitely slowing. I still managed a pretty good session though.

And my stomach obviously wasn't that bad, as I managed to squeeze in an appetising plate of lamb sweetmeats followed by a steak at 32 Great Queen Street by way of dinner and iron supplementation. I'm trying to eat a couple of slabs of red meat per week. Not sure of the nutritional benefits of lamb's testicles, but they must be considerable!