A Million Little Steps
How about that Eliud Kipchoge, eh? And Mo Farah's British record, of course, and what about Vivian Cheruiyot's surprise win? The London Marathon is always a brilliant event, but this year was something special again. I was keen to see the athletes who were missing from the Commonwealth Games marathon - notably the Kenyans, but also Mo - and especially Kipchoge. I mean, wow, when did he last lose a marathon? Well, I can tell you, actually, because I looked it up. It was his second place at the Berlin Marathon way back in 2013, and Wilson Kipsang had to run a world record to beat him! Kipchoge is one of those super-rare athletes that make you realise what an incredible privilege it is to have the good fortune to be alive at the same time and be able to witness someone like that. Simply astonishing.
My own running, by comparison, is barely worth mentioning, but it's my blog, so here we are. In short, if you're talking about general fitness rather than specific race goals, then it's going extremely well, with another good little outing today: stronger, faster and increasingly confidence-building, it all is. I won't bore you with the statistics of the outing, except to mention one thing: I began this campaign 62 days ago, and my fitness tracker tells me that in the early hours of this morning, whilst at work on yet another night shift, I surpassed 1,000,000 steps taken (both running and walking) since I began training again back on 20th February. That's an average of just over 16,000 steps per day. A million is a lot ... imagine how long it takes to earn a million dollars (or pounds or euros), or gain a million Twitter followers. Well, taking a million steps is probably not as hard as that, but it's still a big number. It would be a daunting prospect if you decided to do it as a part of your training. I'm impressed, but then, as we've already established, I do tend to be intrigued by big numbers.
Impressive or perhaps not, I think it calls for a drink.
Cheers!
April Fuels
