Fervent February

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Regular viewers will know that the last 10 days or so have been particularly problematic for me and have thus resulted in virtually no running, which is a tremendous shame after a brilliant January which saw a personal near-record monthly total of kilometres run.

However I was back into it this morning with a gentle 8km (46 mins) in the pre-dawn blackness. There's no doubt about it - the days are getting shorter, and when Mrs MLCM's alarm woke us at 5:45 for her to get to her Thursday spin class, it was inky black. I stumbled out into the streets some 20 minutes later determined to get back on track after a somewhat major hiccup. Fuelling my determination has been an unexpected source of motivation: I've been listening to a different radio station of late - one that plays the songs that were "Top 40" when I was a kid. The reason it's been motivating me is because it suddenly struck me yesterday as I listened to it that the vast majority of advertising on this station is for "senior" citizens. In fact it was back-to-back ads for a denture clinic and a funeral director (I'm not joking) that got me fired up. I was just horrified/mortified/angered to think that the people who dream up ads for this station think children of the 60s are already one foot in the grave.

So it was with grim pleasure that I reinforced my youthful vigour on the streets this morning. Here's one in the eye of advertising copyrighters. Bastards.