Get it Wrong - Get it Right Next Time - Gerry Rafferty

Lyric:- 'Life is a liar yeah life is a cheat, it'll lead you on and pull the ground from underneath your feet' - Rafferty.

Quiz - Gerry Rafferty, Dead or Alive? - Well he's Dead, died in 2011 and was a shock to me too. Anyway, it's a great track and the world is missing one fine song writer IMO, have a look for  yourself here. 

The song's perfect for today's blog as yesterday was such a complete cock up from start to finish and I thought today might have had the same scriptwriter if I'm being honest. 

I couldn't have been further from the truth as the wonderful Jakko at Merrillo Clinic in Newport gave me a good 'Rory talking up' this morning and armed with fresh enthusiasm my up and down walking was just f*cking awesome and just what I needed to get me back into the groove.

Here's some video of me today. Might not seem much but it's moving mountains...

Lady C came along today, as she hasn't seen me training for a couple of days at the clinic, and said the improvement in my walking was somewhat dramatic, which makes me feel like the hard work, lack of sleep and achy body is starting to pay off. 

Rory Coleman

976 Marathons - 271 Ultras - 13 Marathon des Sables - 9 Guinness World Records

Jump - Van Halen

Lyric:- 'I get up, and nothing gets me down. You got it tough. I've seen the toughest all around - Van Halen, Van Halen, Anthony & Roth

Song Choice: Jump, well that was the last thing I did today; I did more FALL. Nope, not at the Morrello Clinic where I was again getting my legs working in time with my brain (well trying to anyway) with a very simple game of being suspended like the baby jumper whilst trying to step over a 2" high 15" wide plank that hurts like f*ck when you kick it or tread on it the wrong way for about 800m.

But hey, that's ok and I can cope with 90 minutes of that - that's the easy bit. What you don't realise is just how buggered your legs are afterwards. They were F*CKED. That's where the FALL comes in and my left leg just collapsed on me and I fell 'Delboy Like' backwards, missing my brains by 6ft, and landed flat on the sharp pointy bit of my skull. OK, there was a bit of claret, a bit of a bump but more than that the embarrassment of being a total tit in front of my good friend Jeff.

Poor guy 5hit himself I think but did a great job of scooping me up and getting me into his house to watch the Wales v England footy, which for me was as bad as my walking.

So today has been a real bummer, so I had a bloody good blubber which I think has helped.

More tomorrow, which can only get better and I know I'm tough, but I'm the toughest around. But somedays you just don't feel it.

Rory Coleman

976 Marathons - 241 Ultras - 1 Big lump on my head.

Duel - Propaganda

Lyric:-' The first cut won't hurt at all, The second only makes you wonder. The third will have you on your knees, you start bleeding I start screaming - Brücken, Dörper & Martens.

Song Choice:- This one cropped up during my 825 metre run this morning. Listen here and be reminded just how good the group was and just how weird the video was too. 

Recorded on the same record label as Frankie which shows in parts it's a great track. Ask my older kids, about this album as I played this to death in my car when the first came out in 1985 on all of our car journeys.

Anyway, back to my 825 meters that I clocked in 2:45, good enough for a 2:05 marathon pb  and a national record, move over Mo Farah - now that would be some sort of miracle happening from the Morello Clinic in Newport in just two sessions.

So coming clean, sadly my 2.45 was 2 hours 45 minutes for the 825 metres which would be a just a snitch under 6 days excluding sleep, feeding and natural breaks BUT it didn't matter as the session was more like a 'It's a Knockout' game of me being suspended like a baby that can't quite walk in a bouncer from the ceiling running, walking, swearing and spitting my way from a box of 55 tennis balls to a tube at the other end where I could post them. How cruel eh? Just 110 trips of the room...

Well, it was for or the first 20 or so trips as I wanted to make an impression on my trainer Jakko about how fast, tough and hard I am when it comes to my running. But after that it was to get a lot harder.

So I calmed down and just took some MTFU pills and steadily worked away at the last 35 balls. It worked too!

Don't get me wrong, it's the hardest 825 metres I've ever covered and the 'Karate Kid, Wax on, Wax off' came to mind many times during the crazy up and downs carrying a tennis ball from one end of a room to another. My legs did get better during the exercise as the muscles started to remember wtf it is they are meant to do and were nicely shredded at the end of the exercise for once

It felt amazing and I've got more to do today? Perhaps...

I have a feeling I'm putting all the tennis balls back in the first box, but who knows 'Wax-on, Wax-off' eh.

More tomorrow.

Rory Coleman 976 marathons - 241 Ultras - 1 passion to walk again.

Never Enough - Jesus Jones

Mike Edwards - Centre

Song Choice: - Another great song from Mike Edwards of Jesus Jones which still feels simply years ahead of it's time 25 years on singing about the futility of life in the early 90's. 

Anyway here goes with how I see them...

Lyric: -

This is the real world, made wrong made right

Or maybe just made

You waste my time with explanations

So all the big colors fade

So you want to be happy

Don't you know happy is never enough.

It all sounds spot on, doesn't it as there's a such big world out there to explore, yet we mess it up on a daily basis. Hence, we are never 100% happy.

Looking for big answers, getting nowhere

But then you're swimming in the shallow end,

You take these broken bones

I'll tell would the you something, these things don't mend.

So we take the easy way out...and we even less happy.

So you want to be happy

Don't you know happy is never enough.

Yep, thanks for the reminder Mike!

I'm on the wrong train I can tell

'Cause I'm the only one who thinks so

Hard on the heels of getting somewhere

But there are things that we don't know.

Hmm - I've got on a lot of wrong trains, leapt of some whilst they were still going - have you, that’s leap of faith I can tell you.

So you want to be happy

Don't you know happy is never enough

OK I've got the message Mike! But I want to add that Enough is never happy, you always want more. Why have one, when you van have three. How much money is enough £1m, £5m, £50? Or do you have to look underneath for that person and say ok, they're enough for me and the money doesn't matter. 

If you can, you are a luckier person than Mike in Never Enough. Do you think there's an Enough and how much is it?

976 Marathons - 241 Ultras - 9 Guinness World Records - 1 Vision to walk again.