"Mad Dog"

Today I have been conversing by email with "Mad Dog" Mike Schreiber, who, I believe, is based in Mexico and was Matt Beardshall's on-line coach for his coast to coast run described in "Life on the Run".

I think he is questioning my sanity of aiming to run a marathon in October when currently on a mile a day. I'm very interested to hear what he has to say.

I do know that he thinks that barefoot running is a current fad and makes no sense, but what do I know, I haven't actually tried it yet and I'm not particularly ready to leap into something that leads to an injury.

One of my main reasons for starting the mile a day challenge was to find something sustainable, that gets me moving, which in turn gets me flowing and helps to create possibility in my world.

Hopefully I'll be in touch with "Mad Dog" again in the next few days.

Coincidences times 2

Just the bare minimum run this morning.

Been up to London today, which gave me a chance to delve a bit deeper into "Life on the Run: Coast to Coast". I now feel I was a bit too hasty in my initial judgement of the book yesterday.

I still think it's quite pricey for such a small book and the layout would not be my chosen design, but I have to say that I'm warming rapidly to the content of the book.

The part about one of the adventurers pleading with his colleagues to give him a new song to sing because he had "High on a Hill Stood a Lonely Goat-Herd" from the Sound of Music going round his head in a loop while at the top of one of the fells, really made me laugh.

That in turn triggered another memory for me of Toby (my son) singing exactly that same song solo on stage at Wimbledon Theatre probably about 20 years ago in the stage production of the show with Christopher Plummer.

The other coincidence I've only just realised is that Matt Beardshall and his colleagues were running (and cycling in 1 case) the exact same route that my brother-in-law and his colleagues are walking as I write this.