The Grazeley 10K this afternoon was like being trapped in one of those Escher trompe l’oeil pictures where those funny little men keep walking up and up stairs in an eternal climb to nowhere. It had started so well. The course was even flatter than a pancake for the first four kilometres, and I was more than a minute ahead of schedule.… READ MORE.... …
Day: 26 June 2003
I’ve been rumbled: Cooper concludes that we all share pathological narcissistic and masochistic tendencies but that most of us find ways of diverting these tendencies toward useful activities. The marathon runner is likely to be quite far along the narcissistic-masochistic spectrum and, “almost uniquely, carries on a useless activity that symbolises society’s need for a special hero who will enact the infantile triumphs requisite for healthy functioning and who also enables the audience to share vicariously in some of his or her forbidden pleasures”.… READ MORE.... …