I went for a great run today. Almost every step was pure joy, bounding through the park (clumsily, dropping my iPod...) on a sunny day for it's own sake. I had a playlist full of inspirational songs to keep me going, and it made a nice change running in warm air so that my lungs weren't tightening up from chill and pollution. I didn't time it, I could only estimate how far I went, and there was no rush.
I've been running on the balls of my feet this week, after a year of sporadic jogging; landing heel-first. I decided to make the switch due to some problems I was experiencing with my left foot, and so far it seems to be working ok. It was Christopher McDougall's talk at google that inspired me. Check it out here.
I found this video thanks to the freerunner Sticky - see www.stickyparkour.com - who is just about to start over one thousand miles of running and parkour from John O'Groats to Paris. He's raising money for a motor neurone disease charity, details on his site. It is a truly epic feat of endurance he's undertaking and I hope he makes it. (He will).
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