Well I woke up this morning and have noticed that my shin-splints have virtually gone after 4 weeks of stretching and taking things easy. Went for a 5 mile run on wednesday, rested yesterday and no sign of pain today so I'm definately going out running today and sunday.
I'll try and make a mental note of your number ed... I'll be aiming for sub 1:25:00, my 10k says (using teh powers of race predictors) that I should be good for a 1:22:14, but I doubt I have the speed endurance for that! PB is Stratford last year (1:36:32) so as long as nothing major goes wrong, I should easily be on for a new PB!