A com­bi­na­tion of drowsi­ness, think­ing about my cousin’s wed­ding yes­ter­day, and think­ing about my first half-marathon tomor­row, all dis­tracted me from my sit­ting today. I found it very hard to focus. I kept try­ing for the first half, but in the last half of the ses­sion, the drift­ing­ness of near-dreaming got to me too often for me to keep my mind on the job.

Still, I sat for the whole fif­teen min­utes, back­ache and dis­trac­tion and all, and I’ll sit for fif­teen min­utes tomor­row, prob­a­bly in the morn­ing before I head out. If I try and sit cross-legged for fif­teen min­utes after I’ve done a half-marathon, the chances are fairly good that I won’t get up again…