Play the Game - Queen

Lyric:- Open up your mind and let me step inside - Mercury

Song Choice:- One of my all time Queen Songs from 1980, this and Another One Bites the Dust making a big impression on an impressionable eighteen year old young Coleman...

It's an interesting notion though to be able to step inside someone else's mind - think their thoughts, see the world from their point of view and truly understand what makes them tick.

Some folk are an open book, wear their heart on their sleeve - some don't even know where their own mind is let alone being able to open it up to let you wander around.

I'm lucky that folk give me the privilege of seeing into some of their darkest corners allowing me some light into why they are whom they are. It's been fascinating and heartwarming to have been in such places over the years .

I'm going to let you into mine in my book, Chapter 3 in the bag, and then you can see what makes me tick. Some of it's not pretty but it's gotten me to 52 in one piece and I'm happy that I can still bash out 26.2 miles like a good'un.

My book will reveal why. How are your darkest corners looking, time to shed some light on them?

Do you the world of good...

More tomorrow from 'ColemanWorld'.

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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Lyric:- 'Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me' - Mercury

Song Choice:- This was number 1 for 9 weeks at Christmas 1975 and well into the new year. Freddie has always been one of my all-time heroes and more than I thought after writing my books first couple of chapters. I could have chosen loads of lines from the best single ever made.

It's the end of another busy week of training and I've still got three consecutive MdS Training Days which include 3 x 26.2 milers to do on Saturday through Monday to keep me busy.

Freddie's carefree love for life comes through so strong in Bohemian Rhapsody and listening to it today renewed my love affair with all things Queen.

It's that or it's the Aloe Vera tonic I'm currently road-testing that's got me into such a good mood.

When was the last time you Scaramouched, Scaramouched, and did the Fandango?

More tomorrow...

You get what you give - The New Radicals

Lyric:- 4am we ran a miracle mile - Alexander & Nowels

Song Choice:- Before writing 'Life is a Rollercoaster' for Ronan Keating penning this one was pure genius. I listened to this at 4am running a mile in the Flora 1000 Mile Challenge, how apt!

Anyway I've got clients whom are up and out on the road dead early getting their training in before the heavy commitments that WE ALL have.

These people really will get what they give as they are there on the money living the dream. Personally I really admire folk with commitment and get up and go.

It's the best and only way if I'm honest to make your dream a reality. If that's you - a big well done - if it's not and your school report used to 'say could try harder' then take a leaf, stop procrastinating and get on the case.

It's amazing what you can achieve if you work hard and are honest with yourself...

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Location:Pembroke Road,Cardiff,United Kingdom

I Feel Free - Cream

Lyric:- 'Though the pavements are one huge crowd' - Bruce & Brown

Song Choice:- This iconic song hit my eardrums today on my iPod and for the aficionados this hit the charts in 1966 and got to #11 and lasts only 2 mins 49 secs. Crazy that such a great song didn't do better...

Anyway, I was reliving my first London Marathon in 1995 earlier today when I was reviewing the second chapter of my book. And as I remember the pavements were my crowd on that  fateful day in the capital all those years ago, I loved the feeling of freedom that the marathon gave me that day and I wonder how many of you looking in on this blog, actually feel free. I jogged a very easy 3:54 btw. 

I still feel free when I'm out on the road pounding the pavements twenty years on, living in the now and in my own world 'cos when I do...I feel free.

More tomorrow... 

Breathe - The Prodigy

Lyric:- 'Breathe with me, breathe the pressure'.

Song Choice:- Still fresh 18 years on and the lyrics are most apt as sometimes one needs to stop, take stock and then carry-on sometimes.

Took a few deep breaths today on my 26.2 miles of a Marathon des Sables Training Day with Steve Darby who'd come all the way from Equatorial Guinea. Yep, I wasn't to sure where it was either until I asked 'Google'.

It was a great day out and it took exactly the same time as Sunday's Expo Marathon. The training must be working as neither Sunday or Today's Marathon was too taxing which today's 108 average heart rate reflects.

I'm going to get back in the gym tomorrow and smash my upper body and 'Breathe the Pressure' tomorrow.

Are you feeling 'Psycho-somatic addict-insane?'...

Afterglow - Genesis

Lyric:- 'Like the dust that settles all around me' - Banks

Song choice:- I've always loved this track off the 1976 'Wind and Wuthering' Album and they played it at Knebworth when I saw them in '78...ah those were the days eh?

There was a feeling of Afterglow post MdS Expo Weekend today as the three days of intense activity certainly took it out on the old Coleman mind and body.

Add to that a deep and husky voice from all that talking and you'll get the picture.

It was fab though to meet so many of the MdS#15 people and great to find out that so many of them have already started to make a dent into the training needed to get the coveted medal.

Today was a good opportunity therefore to put up my feet and sign off the first chapter of my book.

How much more Afterglow can a man take! Well a bit more tomorrow when Steve Darby joins me for an MdS Training Day all the way from Equatorial Guinea.

More tomorrow...

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Location:Pembroke Road,Cardiff,United Kingdom

Message in a Bottle - The Police

Lyric:- 'I hope that someone gets my Message in a bottle' - Sumner

Song Choice:- I'm not sure what happened with The Police but they simply disappeared from sight in 1986. I do remember this being on Green Vinyl at the time and loving see the band on Top of the Pops.

There was only one bottle washed up for those at the Marathon des Sables Expo today in London and that was it's time for then to get off their backsides and get their acts together for the remaining 177 days leading up to the race.

Mine too of course as I need to make my mark on the race again and do it to the best of my ability.

It's wonderful to speak to packed audiences and full rooms of such enthusiastic people and it will be interesting to see how many come out to play for 26.2 miles along the Capital Ring tomorrow.

More then...