Lyric:- 'The summer sun is
fading as the year grows old, and darker days are drawing near' - Wayne,
Osbourne & Vigrass
Song Choice:- Well it was just
too easy to choose it as it's my favourite Autumn themed song and as we've just
passed this year's Autumnal Equinox it seems only right somehow...
Anyway, it's a beautiful time
of year in Wales with all the colours in the local parks and Autumn is always a
special time of year for anyone trying to crack in a fast marathon time. Over
the last 20 years I've juggled with many September/October Marathons and
ULTRA's but this weekend I'm going to run my 15th Robin Hood Marathon,
in Nottingham, my absolute Road Marathon favourite.
I can
quite believe I've run it that many times...back in 1995 it was a
very quick 3.30.55 which seemed a really easy run out at the time, 10 years
later it was my 500th Marathon and this weekend it will be my 931st.
Is it really 20 years ago
since I ran that first Robin Hood?
My how time flies...
And that got me thinking...Oh
dear you say, but please go with the flow here. It got me thinking about life
in four seasons and before you think I'm getting morbid, I'm not, I'm
just trying to get a handle on where I am in my life's cycle
right now.
My brain and the math goes
like this. I hope to get to see my 100th Birthday on 6th February 2062 and that
William and Kate will send me my well earned telegram on the day, if they both
make it! So, if I take my age now of 53 against the 100 as a percentage and
then proportion that against 365 days of the year, I get to 12 August on my
birthday this year and next year at 54 I'll be enjoying the 16th August.
Therefore right now I'm in the afternoon of 15th August. Nice...
A sort of late Summer date
rather than an early Autumn one which is actually better than I thought it
would be. A proper 'Turnkey' solution.
Right now I'm in the middle of
my Mid-life Summer Holiday, and luckily I feel like I'm enjoying living in the
warmth of everything that life can shine down on me before I tip into Autumn
for real on the 30th September, when I hit the grand age of 75.
I've got ages yet!
Even better, Winter is really
January to March but I've counted that as Spring in my way of thinking so in
effect I'll be able 'kick my way through Autumn's Golden Gown for the rest of
my days as Jeff Wayne so rightly puts it, 'My life will be forever autumn' from
here on in!
So what about you? Where are
you right now in your life?
Have your trees already lost
their leaves and are you already in December?
Made me think!
More tomorrow from August
15th...
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