Proof points and positivity

Vibes this week have been good. Good good. You know, like out out. In Scotland when you put two of the same words together it is an emphasiser but also changes the meaning of the original work to make it as if you are shouting it through a mega-phone from the top of a skyscraper.

The spice was hot hot – I had to phone the fire brigade to put the fire out in my bum when I poop. Or I have tinnitus as the band were loud loud- basically Motorhead. And, again, out out means I am going to the Savoy and will likely buy one shot too many before being sick in a shoe sometime around 3am.

Anyway, enough of my teenage exploits.

Going into this week I was thinking about perspective as I look to rebuild fitness. And to that end I went to do a parkrun I have done a few times before. The aim was to use it as a proof point. To check where I am.

I also wanted to get out of the week was some positivity too. Making in-roads into my overall fitness and conditioning.

The proof point went well. I ran the parkrun after doing a recce of the Palacerigg 10k route, a new race taking place next week, with the positivity machine that is David Murray. If you don’t know David he is at the heart of almost all that is great about the local running community round my way. Whether coaching his jogscotland group, arranging recces of various routes and races, or just generally encouraging others, David is on it.

He gave me a private tour of the route. It is cracking and it will be next week’s proof point.

Back to this week’s. After a long but slow run Thu, I went to parkrun Saturday just aiming to see where I was in comparison. I ran pretty much on average for my previous runs there. It was good. And just what I wanted to see.

Proof point 1: positive.

Can’t ask more than that.

It’s been a great week all in. Caelan turned 13 and had some friends over. Then on Saturday we spent the day in Glasgow, pizza, games, shopping and ice-cream sundaes. What more can you ask, right?

A good good, positive positive week.