You can buy fancy running shorts; the latest and lightest in running shoes; the coolest cap that any of Nike/Reebok/New Balance make. You can get the sharpest Adidas prerscription sunglasses money can buy, and even get yourself a pair of Swiftwick socks. You can get a coach and train your ass off.
And when you're out there doing your interval workout all of that fancy stuff makes you sail. You feel like Roger Bannister coming down the home straightaway on the way to breaking the 4 minute mile! Man you are fast!
Until you look sideways and see your shadow! Who is that guy beside me you ask? The guy flailing away but barely moving? Oh yah! Reality!
I think perhaps it's a good metaphor for life. You can put a face on anything. You can dress yourself up, paint your self up, talk yourself up, but alas, the shadow knows!
I spent most of the afternoon pre-fabing a combustible box for a friend. Combustible, as in being acceptable to the crematorium. It was a somber experience. In the end we will all be horizontal and not casting much of a real shadow. Try to live your life so that at least you leave your figurative shadow behind. Perhaps as a comfortable bit of shade for those that love you.
(run intervals 5 X 600 metres)
"A human being is only breath and shadow."---Sophocles
And when you're out there doing your interval workout all of that fancy stuff makes you sail. You feel like Roger Bannister coming down the home straightaway on the way to breaking the 4 minute mile! Man you are fast!
Until you look sideways and see your shadow! Who is that guy beside me you ask? The guy flailing away but barely moving? Oh yah! Reality!
I think perhaps it's a good metaphor for life. You can put a face on anything. You can dress yourself up, paint your self up, talk yourself up, but alas, the shadow knows!
I spent most of the afternoon pre-fabing a combustible box for a friend. Combustible, as in being acceptable to the crematorium. It was a somber experience. In the end we will all be horizontal and not casting much of a real shadow. Try to live your life so that at least you leave your figurative shadow behind. Perhaps as a comfortable bit of shade for those that love you.
(run intervals 5 X 600 metres)
"A human being is only breath and shadow."---Sophocles
Love
Peter
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