Insufferable smugness.
My last run of the month was an easy 8km, which brought my total for March to 129km, well above my target of 100km. I'm very pleased with that and keen now to see what April has to offer.
I was also keen to write here a little more about the ball-tampering scandal by the Australian cricketers in South Africa, but I'm so disgusted by it that I'll keep it brief, lest I rant beyond what is acceptable, which in itself says something about my feelings. The three players caught or confessing to cheating are all back home and have been given lengthy bans from the game by Cricket Australia and severe punitive measures thorugh loss of sposorship and contracts. The coach, Darren Lehmann, has also fallen on his sword and resigned, though I suspect he is not alone among the players in avoiding prosecution without good reason. It's frankly unbelievable to me that the coach and senior bowlers wouldn't have known and therefore, at the very least, colluded with the cheating players.
In these dark times, I'm all the more determined to seek real purpose through my running, which remains extremely positive. I've also been supplementing the running with a large amount of walking. My fitness tracker reveals that I've accumulated well over half a million steps this month (running and walking), and I think this has helped enormously in generally avoiding injury and has perhaps also been a signfiicant factor in the lowering of my resting heart rate, which has sat at a pleasing average of 56 bpm throughout the month.
Meanwhile, my weight is slowly but surely beginning a downward trend. If past charts of my progress through various running campaigns count for anything, this should begin to accelerate soon until it reaches a new, lower plateau where it will stabilise for a while, and where I have to consider replacing parts of my wardrobe, not a wholly unpleasant result.
Also not wholly unpleasant, in my quest for new running music I've unearthed this, another upbeat beauty:
Forward March
