OK I'm a goob and I've finished cracking my sooky la la . Went to the chiro - got a few answers RE why my back is so screwed at the moment. One is my sleeping position. Lying on my back with my left leg straight and right bent causes my right glut to tighten up - I've been wondering why that's tight for a while now! The other being the bending of the field work which I kinda knew. She adjusted a few things but because everything is so tight she couldn't do a lot. I have to have tonight off.

I also asked her if it would have been such a bad thing for me to keep running and it is a stupid as it sounds. Apparently I've inflamed a joint in my back so even if I warmed up and made all the ligaments feel good it would have only masked the problem temporarily and caused worse pain later when i cooled down. Bad idea!

mental note to self - make an appointment for the afternoon of my last day in the field when doing field work coz it's bound to screw my back and stick to known 'safe' sleeping positions if possible. She showed me a couple of stretches to try to release the tight part of my right glut but I couldn't feel them and she said it's a difficult area to stretch so I think prevention is much better than cure in this case!