Monday 19th March
Distance: 1.32mile
Time: 15:04min
Avg Speed: 5.28mph
Avg Pace: approx. 11:22min/mile
Calories Burned: 179
Monday morning and not working till this afternoon, so I went for a quick jaunt ‘around the block’ so to speak. I repeated last Monday’s route and manage to do a mile in 10.25min. My mile target is now to break 10 minutes. It took me ages to get below 11 minutes but I can feel the seconds dropping off 10, so hopefully I will be below 10 in the next couple of runs.
It was a lovely crisp morning with blinding sunshine so I was glad that I had taken my sunglasses with me. Behind my glasses and with my ipod on I felt quite detached from the world and found my brain focussed on just the running. My neutral gait and mid-foot strike served me well and I quickly and efficiently padded round my route. I was home before the cup of tea I had left on the unit had even got cold!
This weekend saw two sporting events that have nudged my conscious. Saturday I watched the 6 Nations Rugby final and cheered Wales on to a Grand Slam victory (my Raison D’etre is Welsh and I am 1/8 Welsh so one has to support them). England also powered home to victory over Ireland in their game so my 6/8 English was proud too. My other 1/8 is Peruvian and as they do not play in the 6 Nations I could not cheer for them! I was struck by what a well organised and well-mannered game (for the most part) rugby is. With its radio microphones on the referee and video referee it is not open to the same disrespect that the average football game involves. In rugby one does not see players arguing or challenging the ref or indeed abusing the referee, unlike football where angry faced louts shout, sware and generally sound off at the referee. Time for microphones and video refs in the beautiful game me thinks.
The second prick to my conscious was the sad events involving the 23 year old football player Fabrice Muamba. Here was a man in the peak of physical fitness struck down by a heart attack whilst playing football for Bolton. I find myself thinking how important it is to keep fit and not to let this ‘once and once only body’ we have get out of condition but even when the body is a prime example of physical fitness it can still fail. I suppose the fact that he is so young and strong should aid his recovery but he remains in a critical condition today. His family have asked people to pray for him and that I do hoping that he finds the strength to pull through and returns to fitness. God bless Fabrice Muamba and his family, may he have a speedy recovery and be again with his family.
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