A wee bit creaky this morning, so I confess to being more than a little relieved when the Spartans running session was cancelled due to heavy snow on the cycle paths. There are actually people - clinically insane people mind you - who run in snow and even icy conditions, but I'm not one of them. I have enough trouble keeping from going arse over 'ed on a pavement in the middle of a June heatwave, let alone when it's slippier than a cartoon banana skin (incidentally, I have never found banana skins that slippy; seedless grapes however, they will easily make customers do a Torville or Dean down the fruit and veg aisle of Gateway Supermarket on Castle Street; any prizes for guessing what I used to do for a Saturday job??!). So it's a night off for me. Don't worry though; there's always something to talk about!
A very apt motto appeared on my tear (as in 'rip' not 'boo hoo') off calendar today; and it did make me giggle.....
'Anyone healthy enough to run three miles, is healthy enough not to have to' (now they tell me!!)
It may not exactly be marathon-thinking, but however much I may disagree ever so slightly with its sentiment, for it to appear on my calendar now does make me smile. By means of reparation for enjoying something which flies in the face of the marathon world, I would like to add my own extension to the saying as follows.....
Anyone healthy enough to run.....
...six miles, is just about mad enough to do it
...nine miles, may as well round it up to ten
...twelve miles, don't you drive???
...fifteen miles, there is a really good therapist I can recommend
...eighteen miles, the therapist......clearly wasn't THAT good then
...twenty-one miles, is probably also a fan of Gina G, S Club 7 and The Pussycat Dolls
...twenty-four miles, is beyond hope
...twenty-six miles, oh what the hell; may as well go run the London Marathon.....
Why do we do it then?? Well, someone who genuinely has to ask that is not someone who is ever going to do it. I'm not that someone......
69 days to go.
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