The beauty of having young children is that it seems to naturally put everything into perspective. They don’t understand or care whether you’ve had a bad day at the office. The bottom line is that nothing else matters to them so long as they are loved, fed, watered and have toys to play with. After the Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday I spent the rest of the day, and all of my journey back home, beating myself up about the fact that I had only ran 2:53:44 because going into the race I felt as though I was the best prepared for a marathon that I had ever been.
Autumn. The season of falling leaves. Crisp mornings. Increasingly darker nights. The transition from summer to winter. The season of change. In keeping with the changing nature of the season my life seems to be all about change at the moment. I started the month of October with an interview to try to save my job. As runners, especially when training with a long term goal in mind, we can all too easily lose ourselves in a running “bubble” and forget that times are hard in the real world. |
Mark KetleyMark is a former Elswick Harrier who now competes for Sedgefield Harriers. Archives
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