What Have You Done Today, to Make You Feel Proud?
Well - here goes - another year, another FLM! I still can't get used to doing it. Frantic kit packing, unpacking, and rechecking, and so on ad nauseum. Sleep wasn't too bad, but came in fits and starts.
This is the marathon that I didn't think was going to happen. A couple of weeks ago I was running ten miles and getting rather drastic cramping at the end of it. Then I had a good run - half marathon distance, in my new Kayanos. Even so - it's still only half way.
FLM might never have happened even so. Okay - I'm happier with my shoes now, but even this morning, I managed to add too much liquid to my porridge, some spilt as I carried the bowl to my room, and I nearly skidded @rse over tit in one of the most embarassing runner's injuries ever!
Sat here noe with the self same bowl of porridge in front of me, and Heather Small on th CD player bit of the 'pooter:
#I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending#
Yeah - so I won't do a PB today, and I may end up walking as much as I run. In many ways it's a sh1te year for running, but even so, I'll have done something that many others aven't done. I'll have "stepped out of the ordinary", and frankly, it's a great feeling. I reckon I may even get more pleasure out of crossing the line this year than I did in 2004, when I last did it, and ran all the way.
For all the slagging it gets about being over-hyped, FLM for me still reaches inside my and touches my soul. The emotional charge I get from it is immense. I can easily see myself in tears by the end of it, particularly as I'll be further back in the field and seeing more people struggling, and I intend to help them. Every one of these people has "stepped out of the ordinary". And long may they continue :o)
Good luck to anyoen running, reading this at stupid o'clock ;o)
This is the marathon that I didn't think was going to happen. A couple of weeks ago I was running ten miles and getting rather drastic cramping at the end of it. Then I had a good run - half marathon distance, in my new Kayanos. Even so - it's still only half way.
FLM might never have happened even so. Okay - I'm happier with my shoes now, but even this morning, I managed to add too much liquid to my porridge, some spilt as I carried the bowl to my room, and I nearly skidded @rse over tit in one of the most embarassing runner's injuries ever!
Sat here noe with the self same bowl of porridge in front of me, and Heather Small on th CD player bit of the 'pooter:
#I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending#
Yeah - so I won't do a PB today, and I may end up walking as much as I run. In many ways it's a sh1te year for running, but even so, I'll have done something that many others aven't done. I'll have "stepped out of the ordinary", and frankly, it's a great feeling. I reckon I may even get more pleasure out of crossing the line this year than I did in 2004, when I last did it, and ran all the way.
For all the slagging it gets about being over-hyped, FLM for me still reaches inside my and touches my soul. The emotional charge I get from it is immense. I can easily see myself in tears by the end of it, particularly as I'll be further back in the field and seeing more people struggling, and I intend to help them. Every one of these people has "stepped out of the ordinary". And long may they continue :o)
Good luck to anyoen running, reading this at stupid o'clock ;o)
posted by XFR Bear @ 6:38 am
2 Comments:
[wipes tears]
I hated and loved every minute of being the other side of the fence ... felt like I was cheering for 1000s of my friends and so wanted to be with them
Well done bear
And i cried all the way up the Mall listening to that song
Despite it bieng my 4th FLM, and my 31st mara
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