Back into the running

Happy to have ran half an hour tonight in the pouring rain....

Basically ... got running clothes on....looked out.... saw it was chucking it down... watched through window.... it got worse if anything....thought sod it.....

went out and ran and it was ace... its actually better running in the rain (albeit it got a bit cold after a while and i came back earlier than i usually do)

its a great feeling though, getting back into the running... and its much better than going to the gym or something... cos you can literally just go from your back door...and decide a minute before you run that you want to do it.....

I had an interesting conversation with my friend Christian recently who's doing the Great North Run with me... He said he only runs in the gym, because he's too embarrassed to run in the street.. and other people tend to tell me that they couldnt just run in the streets cos its boring...

Whereas I am the other way round... i would be way too embarrassed and self-conscious in the gym.. especially with lots of muscly men around.... and I would also find it deadly boring... rather than having all the different scenery and cars to avoid and things.....

One of the best possible things that can happen to you when you're running.... and you have to be very lucky for this to happen.... is that you catch up another person who's out jogging and overtake them..... this is a great feeling!!!...but has only happened to me once that I can recall and it was a very slow old lady...

Usually, its the other way round, that I can hear someone running behind me, and i think oh crap i have to go a little bit faster to avoid being overtaken.... One of the funniest things I've ever seen was when I was on a bus and the driver saw this man was running to the bus stop, so he slammed on the brakes... but the man just ran past cos he was a jogger

lol

I ran i think 2 miles today..whereas usually i do a route which is i think about 3 and a half.. but i'm just getting back into it.... I do now have three friends doing the great north run with me.. so am going to do a few more runs on my own, and then will start running with them.....

Another thing I always challenge myself to do , is not stop running for a single step during the whole duration... This causes me to look slightly stupid when stood at the side of the road waiting for cars to pass before i can cross and carry on my route.

Anyway that's been the highlight of my day. I have a total of 1 easter egg this year and its from my boss, and it's the obligatory boss easter egg.
Also had a 2 hour 29 minute conversation with phil today... which is perhaps the longest personal phone call i've ever had with a man in my life lol.....

He was telling me his philosophy that everyone has only 2 drives..... desire and fear.. and everything, absolutely everything is a result of those two.....

So in other words people who don't do things, it always boils down to fears, even if its fears that people don't want to verbalise or even admit to themselves. Phil's great to talk to about the creative process and achieving goals... and to learn from... Also, an amazing thing happened to him recently.. He was cured of diabetes!

He's had diabetes for many years - i'm not sure how long - but completely altered his lifestyle , every step of his diet etc to fight it - and even though it is largely talked about that diabetes can't be cured, he has done. He told me, its because the way of curing diabetes is by drastically changing your lifestyle over a period of years, and most people simply arent prepared to it... in the same way smokers know the damage they are doing, but it doesn't mean its easy by any means to change the lifestyle.

Anyway, yeah, I was getting advice because my long-term goal is the Great North Run this year. And of course a novel by the end of 2013.

His advice differed a bit from what I knew already so it was great to take it on board. Cos he talked more about thinking of the end product and the goal, whereas I break stuff down into tiny manageable chunks, but often I don't put enough desire into the long-term goal.

Last night I was at Hospital Radio. I've been interviewing new members there and helping choose which people to select. The good news is we have loads of new members now, from a heap of applications and interviews... and some really exciting people. A guy who has so much experience of producing radio shows for commercial radio. I can't wait to get his input on my show, and I know i can learn so much from him. Also a woman who runs the Gazette and Herald newspaper - a very good contact to have.... and a guy who can't stop writing stuff (lol, familiar).. Actually, he'd written hundreds of things.... andhe's going to be climbing the three peaks with us next weekend so I can't wait to hear about the kind of stuff he's written.

I spent the largest part of the night, learning how to edit and update the hospital radio Web site - all good fun - and doing a stock-take of membership clothing LOL...

Tomorrow it's one of my best mates - Neil's 30th birthday so going to the pub in Copmanthorpe for that - 30 really is a biggy. I'm gonna give him a Snoop Dogg Microphone squeaky dog toy.