Ides of March.

[Bierzo Baggie]

Discovered that the running commentary website had disappeared but kept the diary going anyway. I’d sort of got into it. A running diary based on my preparation for nothing in particular had turned into an observation of a landscape and its changes as seen whilst running. After 10 years trotting along the same paths you develop some kind of heightened consciousness of what’s around you and over the years I’ve definitely become more sensitive to the changing seasons and to the sounds and smells that accompany them. The landscape has become part of me and any change in it, temporary or permanent, makes me feel as if it is also me, myself that is changing. I suppose this explains why I’ve never lost the habit of “going out for a run”. In a nutshell it makes me feel alive. And I’m not a hippy. And I haven’t got any Donovan records hidden away, so…..nice to be able to read about everybody’s running on-line again and to have the opportunity to record my own running experiences.

And to maintain a complete diary, this is what happened in the mean time.