Manuary 2014

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

I hate to say this, but I think my Canberra Marathon campaign may already be over.

It's good and bad news - the good news being that it's absolutely nothing to do with injury. Rather - and this is the bad news - pressures of work are mounting again (a substantial fight is brewing) and I'm struggling to cope with the pressures of career versus the pressures of staying on a marathon training campaign.

Of course in such a situation I have to consider my long term future as  a priority, and not having the added pressures of marathon training seems to me a blessed relief at this juncture. I'm not saying it's definitely the case ... well ... OK, yes I am, let's be sensible about this.

I'll still run, of course. It's actually a fantastic way to cope with the pressures of work, but that's the key - to run without the pressures of a training schedule makes it pleasurable and therapeutic, whereas running with the thought that I have x kilometres to run, and I have to maintain such-and-such a pace and ensure I do hills, intervals and keep up the core strength exercises etc. etc. is something that at the moment I am frankly better off without.

It's a great shame, but at the moment I am fighting a zombie management intent on devouring as many brains as they can, and I need all my strength just to fight them off with pool cues and cricket bats. If Canberra could keep postponing the race in synchronisation with my training defaults it would be OK, but that of course is never going to happen.

Damn, damn, damn and blast it, but there you go. Life is not always fair like that.

Here's a short video my workplace at present...