Running
None today, a well earned rest after 13 days straight. I have often wondered if I could do the 13 days on 1 day off thing, seems that I can because I am feeling pretty sprightly today. Having said that at this stage of the game I probably won’t be going down that road, when I start running more mileage I will achieve it by doubling up some days and keeping the 1 rest day a week.
It was strange though to finish work today and head for the train station, rather than heading to the change room downstairs. Walking to and from the station and having a walk at lunch time doesn’t cut it, guess I’ll be saving up the energy for Sunday.
Now don’t go asking me for goals for Sunday, I haven’t really put much thought into it. The start will be heavily congested and I am not going to run half the race stressing out about having to make up time. I will again be tackling it without the Polar Footpod so I can practice pacing sans technology (apart from my watch), my main goal will be to tackle this at a pace that will be required to achieve a 100 minute half marathon and maybe a 10Km PB along the way 
so it’s all about practice and having a bit of fun.
We’ve had sad songs, what’s your swan song
Today’s Noise Pollution post was about what song you would like played at your Funeral.
Ask me this question I will ultimately say, who gives a damn, I’m dead! But reading some of the comments had me cacking myself, I think my favorite was “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”, followed by “Off to see the Wizard” both from The Wizard of Oz.
Runners up were -
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Fire Water Burn - Bloodhound Gang (perhaps “Burn Mother Fucker Burn” while being cremated appeals to my incredibly sick sense of humor)
Asshole - Denis Leary (Have you ever noticed when someone dies tragically and they interview their friends/family on TV they are always saying what a wonderful/generous/fantastic/saintlike person they were. Just once I want to hear someone say, “oh, he was a bit of an asshole actually)
Thriller - Michael Jackson, as long as the guests come dressed as Zombies
Apologies if I have somehow caused any offense but I gotta tell you, I tend to keep it under wraps here but I have a very left of middle sense of humor and as the boys from Monty Python said -
Life’s a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true.
You’ll see it’s all a show
Keep ‘em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you
My motto, “Ya gotta laugh”, my grandma was a great example, when she was dying of cancer she rarely lost her sense of humor, even when things got quite grim at the end.
But if I was pressed to pick something seriously I guess it would be a toss up between -
Hallelujah - my old faithful Jeff Buckley version
If I Should Fall From Grace with God - The Pogues
But part of me really wants Ding Dong the Witch is Dead 
