Alla inlägg under oktober 2008

Av Pelle - 5 oktober 2008 22:24

This weeks training has been on a very low level. No real motivation or energy in my system. Stiff achilles tendons on top of that, hasn't really given me any enthusiasm for running. I also think that the last couple of weeks with bad sleeping due to that Jim & Nellie are keeping us awake on and off all nights, has effected me more than I want to admit. Good sleep is now a luxuary and I'm very impressed by Misia, who are waking up a couple of times each night to do the breast feeding business, without complaining.

I'm very pleased that I managed to get out for a 21 km run today. Felt rather OK, but I thought about the coming challenge next weekend with some doubts ... Göteborg Marathon 42 km. Only 6 days away and I'm not really prepared for it. But, but, but ... I've been even less prepared before some other marathons, so I will for sure be able to complete it. I have to calculate with some walking in the end. That's alright, I'm not going there to win. Right now, my overall target is to collect another 16 marathons, so I will break the 100 barrier and receive the next major trophy. One race at the time and it will hopefully happen in the end of 2010. If I can keep the pace up and time it in a nice way, I would like to do race no 100 at the classic course between Marathon and Athens. It's normally staged in November each year. Okidoki, the visualization process can begin, with me running in to Athens screaming "Chairete nikomen", but instead of dying myself, I will consider letting my Marathon running "career" die and do something else instead.

Av Pelle - 4 oktober 2008 23:15

Funny, last night we saw the movie "Meeting the Fockers" where Robert De Niro is playing a tight-up father and ex-CIA guy. It's a rather classic simple American style comedy, but you can always find some pieces that are very good. De Niro is always good by the way. In this movie he was positioning his son-in-law to-be (Ben Stiller), in or outside his Circle of trust. I found it overall rather amusing and had quite a few good laughs.

What also happened last night was that a very good friend called me and confessed that he's been lying to me this week. Very surprising indeed. Then the question struck me later on today: Is this guy in or outside my circle of trust now? You can always argue about the level of importance of the lie and the purpose, but it had been on that level that it had kept him partly sleepless. No major impact for me or damaged caused and the excuse was accepted, but I'm afraid that regardless of that, it will always remain a slight suspious filter on my mind subconsciously from now on, when I'm taking in information from him.

Generally, I'm very trusting, until proven wrong. I think that's a better attitude, than being suspious towards everyone and everything for no appaerent reason.

The point that I'm getting to is, that if you are inside someone's so called Circle of trust, than it just takes one small lie to be thrown outside and there's a long road back to get inside again. Hard price to pay!

Av Pelle - 2 oktober 2008 20:20

This house is the 5th house that I've owned and they all have had one special thing in common. A fireplace. It's very relaxing to light a fire and then just sit there and starr into it, in a similar fashion that my ancestors probably have done for thousands and thousands of years before me. That's what I like about it. It's somehow timeless. Lots of other stuff (electricity, nuclear power, etc) are invented but will either be replaced with something else over time or dissappear due to disasters or similar. With a fire, it doesn't really make a difference if you are sitting inside a nice house, in a rough cave or outside in the bush. The fire is the magic component and most probably one key reason why the human beings have survived through history.

So now when it's getting colder and darker, the fireplace is really special. Or like Confucius put it "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness".

One of my favourite bands as a teenager was Slade. I always had lots of arguments with my friend Johan who was a T.Rex fan, about what band that was the best. I insisted in a classic inmature black and white way, that Slade were super heros and T.Rex were crap. When I now look on how Elvira is talking about her favourite band, My Chemical Romance, it's about the same bullshit arguments. Well, I realized after a while that T.Rex were quite good and much more cool, but I never admitted it to Johan. Today we still play T.Rex quite often, but never Slade ... They were very good though and also very successful.The only vinyl album with Slade that still remains in my collection, is actually Slade in Flame. The rest were probably lost during separations or trading. I found lots of boxes with nostalgic old stuff when we moved into the house and of course I browsed through the albums and got some memory flashbacks. They will most certainly never be played again, but it's also hard to dump them.

"And I'm far, far away
with my head up in the clouds
And I'm far, far away
with my feet down in the crowds
Lettin' loose around the world
But the call of home is loud still as loud"


PS. My Chemical Romance is really crap or I am really old ;-) I feel sorry for the youngsters of today ...

Av Pelle - 1 oktober 2008 23:03

After 2 months of blogging without any specific strategy, it might be worth while reflecting on the value of this and if I perhaps should stick to a more profiled topic, like running, training, etc. Hmmm... that was a little bit the way I started, to share some thoughts with my MC-gang friends and also to stimulate myself to training. It's easier to do things if you somehow commit to them by writing them down. According to the statistics, there were 151 unique visitors on my blog site during September, so perhaps I better be a bit more careful about what I write etc. On the other hand, who cares and I don't think I would like to follow a path or being predicatable and political correct (!?) on the blog, if I'm not like that in real life, so I think I better stay in my own goofy style, spitting out things from the top of my mind, sometimes positive and sometimes critical.

So if you have any views on this, please let me know ... I will probably not care anyhow.

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