day six

I made the rash decision to run the school Relay today. That's about 2.6 km, which takes the quickest boys about 9 minutes, and the slow and unfit adults anything up to 15 minutes. Anyway, I decided to run it because it would be good for me. Good for me that is to go round really slowly and be passed by everyone. At one point this midget (or possibly young pupil) shot passed me, like he was a rabbit being chased by a grey hound. It was all very humbling...which seemed to be the point. Do it, do it to your best exactly because you're really bad at it and then all that ego that wants somehow to believe that you could have been a contender is simply drowned out by a huge wave of reality. I recommend it. (oh, except don't write a blog about it afterwards because then you may feel smug.)