2010/75: Blue and Gold -- K J Parker

Blue and Gold -- K J Parker

I'd finally given her what she wanted, the elixir of eternal youth, effected by the removal of her internal fire (the catalyst of change) through the agency of death. She'd have been so pleased, if only she'd been there to see it. Still, you can't have everything ... (p. 70)

( non-spoilery review )

Shoot the runner ...

First failure-to-complete on Couch to 5K: Week 5, Session 3 includes a 20-minute run (I have not run for more than 8 minutes at a time since I was at school, probably) and I had to stop after about 10 mins due to bad pain / cramping / spasms in both legs, knees down to soles of feet.

Will have another try tomorrow. And am not actually beating myself up about this, because I think I've done amazingly well to get through all the previous sessions on first attempt.

May not be a coincidence that today is also a puffy-eyelid day. Fluid retention? General weirdness? 'weak with starvation' as transmitted by unwillingly-dieting ozymandias_cat?